[bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about scanned textbooks

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:52:57 -0700 (PDT)


Yes I'm pretty sure you can submit a book you didn't personally scan; there are 
a lot of teams, including couples,where one person scans and the other proofs.



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> From: Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:05 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about scanned textbooks
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>Hi Dornetta,
> 
>I'd definitely wait for an answer from BookShare on whether you can submit a 
>book you didn't personally scan. I vaguely remember something like that came 
>up early on and I don't remember how it was finally resolved.
> 
>Lies My Teacher Told Me... is already in the collection with an excellent 
>rating.
> 
>Deborah 
> 
>From:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dornetta
>Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 11:08 PM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Questions about scanned textbooks
> 
>Hello Volunteers! 
>I posed this question another volunteer who suggested that I ask the list so 
>here it goes. I have several books that the disability office at school has 
>scanned for me, the books are textbooks for the Early Childhood Development 
>and School Age Child degree program. I was reading through the safe 
>publisher's list and that several of the publishers of these books are in the 
>safe column. My question is this, if I clean up the scans is it ethical for me 
>to upload them to bookshare providing that I did not do the scans myself? 
>These are very informative textbooks that can also be read as 
>stand-alone books for those who wish to do so. 
>I also have a book called, "Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History 
>Got Wrong" and "The Traveling Pants"(which is a book about the eco-friendly 
>deham jeans.) Both of these were used as "readers" (stand alone text) for my 
>sociology class. Oh yea, how could I forget about the World Religion book (I 
>just forgot the name is all-but this was also a stand alone book for the 
>sociology class)
>Please advise,  
>Netta 
> 
>"Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder 
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