[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Guideposts & Readers Digest

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  • Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:38:02 EDT

The ads might not be required, but they would be a bear to get rid of. In 
fact, magazines in general are laid out entirely differently from books. They 
may have columns; they may have advertising inserted in the middle of 
articles; they may have articles that are split and continued in various parts 
of 
the magazine. All in all, the editing job could be rather daunting.

                                                                          
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None of the NLS magazines I receive have advertisements, so I would 
assume that the ads wouldn't be required, As you say, though, they would 
definitely be more complicated all around.

Melissa

Soronel Haetir wrote:
> Reading the copyright law I certainly don't see any legal reason
> bookshare can't offer magazines.  I do see numerous potential
> technical issues though.
>
> 1)  As someone else asked, would the ads need to be included?  I am
> fairly sure that the large print edition of Guideposts does not
> include the ads, but I may well be mistaken.
>
> 2)  What about content searching, especially for the types of literary
> magazines just mentioned someone may well wish to search for stories
> by particular authors.  This would make the database issues much more
> complicated, as well as the meta-data entry process.
>
> 3)  Other magazines (Countryside as an example) have numerous
> extremely high quality photos.  Bookshare would need to add the
> ability for volunteers to upload books with images intact for lots of
> magazines to be full value to the sighted members.   Other magazines
> contain graphs and charts that would be valuable to retain.
>
> I too have thought of this, due to having a large collection of Analog
> Science Fiction/Science Fact.  Many of them are old and fragile enough
> however that I would be extremely reluctant to scan them even if
> bookshare would post.
>
> On 9/27/09, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> Personally speaking for myself, the Braille magazines I know are boring 
to
>> me. I'd like to see Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Realms of 
Fantasy
>> or magazines that have stories in them. We also don't get access to 
literary
>> magazines and there's only one poetry magazine in the Braille magazines
>> program. I'm very glad that Bookshare is trying to fill in the gap for
>> books, and I'm thinking it will be a tall order should magazines be part 
of
>> the mix, but then again, why not reach for the stars? Why shouldn't we 
have
>> the same access to magazines as our sighted confreres? Regards, Kim.
>>
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>> I have seen Guideposts on bookshare in years past, but not for a few 
years
>> now.  I would love to see jReader's Digest in the collection, but then, 
who
>> asked me?  (smile)
>>
>> Sue S.
>>
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>> Doug:
>> These periodicals are provided by NFB newsline which I believe has
>> contracted to provide certain content to bookshare.  I don't think
>> individual members can scan them.
>> Amber
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