[bksvol-discuss] Re: levels of navigation .... in new books in Bookshare
- From: <ohio1803@xxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 10:54:20 -0600
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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