[bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of navigation .... in new books in Bookshare

  • From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 13:37:55 -0500

That may be right, Evan.

Sue S.


From: john.falter
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 10:06 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of navigation .... in new books in 
Bookshare

Hi Sue:
Perhaps the number you entered is being considered a percentage of the BRF book.


On 9/4/2014 12:37 AM, Sue Stevens wrote:


  Hi Evan,

  I have noticed what Rick has noticed in my BRF files. Even though page 
numbers aren't given, if I type a number in the find box, I am taken farther 
into the book. I can't say if it is actually the page I would be on if I had a 
hard copy of the book, but I do not get the message "not found". Rather, I am 
taken to another place in the book.

  Sue S.


  -----Original Message----- From: Evan Reese
  Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 2:00 PM
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of navigation .... in new books in 
Bookshare

  Hi Rick,
  No, volunteers do not proofread the PQ books. So if they don't have the 
  right markup, then they don't get fixed up before they get into the
  collection. Interesting that you should mention that page navigation works
  in these books. My experience with reading the brf versions of PQ books is
  that most of them don't have page numbers in them.
  Evan


  -----Original Message----- From: ohio1803@xxxxx
  Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:54 PM
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of navigation .... in new books in
  Bookshare

  Okay.
  Suggestion that I make a Book Quality report.
  I did, I think, make this comment, in a way to bring out that point.
  That many books are not having the needed headings to use Daisy navigation.
  And as was stated, there are very very many books coming into the collection
  from Publisher Quality, or PQ, I guess we call it.

  So with hundreds and thousands of books coming in this way, those are much
  too numerous expect the Bookshare members to file those reports.

  My hope is that somehow much fewer of those books will get into the
  collection without better Daisy navigation.
  It may or may not be a volunteer issue at all, I really don't know.
  Do the volunteers actually do this Proofreading process for all of these?

  I just raised the point as a member who has experienced this a good number
  of times on some books I have downloaded, and found that I would go to
  advance to the next section, only to hear, "End of book."  Left arrow, and
  it goes back to the beginning.  Change my navigation level to page, and I am
  good.

  I am one of those who really enjoys reading Bookshare books, because I
  actually like the experience, and increased power of my ease of reading, 
  because I can go to different places in the book. I am old enough to
  remember how it was to listen to the squirrels barking as the cassette would
  rewind as I would try to find a pasasge or section of a book.  Or before 
  that, would drop the needle on the old discs of the NLS player to find a 
  place.

  There are lots of books I have downloaded, both staff submitted and
  volunteer submitted that do have really nice navigation. So I just wanted to
  bring it up if there is a way to see how it will navigate before it gets put
  up in the collection.   Front end adjustments, rather than hindsight fixes.

  Hope that makes sense.
  Happy reading, happy proofreading, everyone!  (smile)
  Rik

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