[bksvol-discuss] Re: sci-fi validators
- From: "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:58:05 -0400
Carrie,
I was pretty sure that The Ship Who Sang was already in the collection. I
checked and it is there. Is yours a BSO? I wasn't sure because it seemed that
you listed it as a new book.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:34 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: sci-fi validators
I'm not at the office currently, but I can tell you that most of the new
sci-fi books are from authors who aren't familiar to me. About a dozen of the
books are by well-known authors so I put those first in the queue.
Most of the BSO sci-fi books are by well-known authors. I managed to scan
eight of them yesterday before the whine of the scanner convinced me to stop
scanning. Three of them I validated last night, one because there was some
strange formatting in it, and two because the scanner ripped a page in half in
each book - another reason to perform maintenance on it. When Claire replaces
the books, you'll see Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny, The Ship Who Sang
by Anne McCaffrey, and Magician: Master by Raymond E. Feist on the new books
list. The other 5 BSO sci-fi books I'll submit when I go into the office. Wish
I could remember their titles now. Well, next time I'm in, I'll post a list of
the new and BSO sci-fi books to the group.
Carrie
Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing what you got when you get the time to
list them.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Estelnalissi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: sci-fi validators
Dear Carrie and Clare,
! You could have rolled your eyes and said, "We're up to our eyebrows in
books to scan. We can't take another book right now, but you didn't! Thanks to
both of you
A Bookstore across the street? How can you stand it???
I'm a fan of several genres of books including sf and noticed right away
how much that group needed BSOing. There are lots of accurate files in that
group to read while the BSOs trickle in. Night Train to Rigel, by Timothy Zahn,
which Kelley validated was a fun read. I hope you'll tell the staff at the
Bookstore across the street that the Booksharians from coast to coast are agog
over their donation!
All of that science fiction coming at us. Where's Hermione's time turner
when I need it? I want to jump up and down yelling "I'll do them! I'll do
them!," but I have a clutch of 5 treasures to validate. I have faith in the
volunteers as a whole so this is me jumping up and down yelling, "We'll do
them! We'll do them!"
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: Bookshare Vol Group
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] sci-fi validators
Hi all,
Last week, the used bookstore across the street called us and said that
they had loads of sci-fi books in their free box. The books are old and smelly
and no one will buy them. Would we like them? You bet! Claire and I zipped
over and grabbed a slew of books, and brought them back to the office. There
are 20 BSO sci-fi books and 47 new sci-fi books for the collection. I have 38
BSO sci-fi books from my father's collection, so at this point we now have 58
BSO sci-fi books, 47 new sci-fi books, and 38 classical music books that we're
trying to process. Whew! Of course now the scanner has been making strange
noises, so it needs to go in for maintenance. I'm hoping we can have it in and
out of a local shop within a few days. We'll see how that goes.
I want to submit the BSO sci-fi books before the new sci-fi books,
hoping that the validators will work on them. I'm afraid if I submit the new
ones first, the BSO ones will be ignored. The sci-fi collection is in pretty
bad shape, mainly because the first library of books to start the collection
was mostly sci-fi. Way back when, people were anxious to start the collection,
so they scanned the books and plopped them into the collection without any
validation. I think about half of the fair books are sci-fi now. I'm trying
to upgrade the sci-fi so we have excellent scans of most books. I managed to
sneak a few BSO sci-fi books through the scanner this morning before the noise
got really loud. I'll try to submit them later this week. Please validate
them. After the rest of the BSO ones are submitted, we'll start on the new
ones. Of course the classical music ones will be sprinkled in there too.
And that's the status from the office, Carrie
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