[bksvol-discuss] Back on the List
- From: "Louise" <bookscanner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:41:30 -0500
I got back on the list yesterday after being gone from it for a long time.
Although I knew it was inevitable, I am still very unhappy about the number of
books that are being replaced. In my particular case, I've lost about 40 books
in the last month! At this rate, in a year or two, I will be down to zero or
close to it and then I can hang it up and chalk it up to a decade of wasted
time and effort. Like so many tasks that are undertaken in life,, even good
ones never last. I guess It was a pipe dream to think that volunteers would
be scanning books that would stay on Bookshare for many years to come and now
reality has to be faced.
I guess we should be grateful that Bookshare is increasing their quantity (and
quality?) of books so dramatically. Numbers have always been everything when
it comes to the big picture.
I joined Bookshare a month or so after they went live in February of 2002, but
at this point I don't know whether or not I'll be around by the time they reach
their next anniversary in February of 2011.
Perhaps Bookshare should change their name to something like Digital Books for
the Blind, Dyslexic, Learning Disabled, etc.
I will continue scanning books since I still enjoy doing that. As to whether
or not they will ever reside on any other computers besides mine is another
matter entirely.
Now that I've had my say, I'll get off my soapbox and go back to my scanner.
What will happen will happen and we'll just have to accept the inevitable
whether we like it or not.
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