[bksvol-discuss] Re: Monday's meeting
- From: "Paula Mack" <pmack1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:30:56 -0500
Hi Mike,
Normally, I hate I-agree messages, I do wish to express my complete
agreement with everything you have said in your message quoted below, and I
thank you for expressing said sentiments so succinctly.
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Monday's meeting
> While everyone else jumps in with their thoughts, let me be no exception
> <smile>!!
>
> Obviously, the better the quality of the Bookshare book, the better off
> the reader, the service, et al are.
> However, let us not forget the spirit upon which BookShare is based. It
> is not professional scanners -- though some of us are contributing vast
> amount of material either through scanning or validating -- but it is a
> medium for individuals to share what they've done.
> And since folks for themselves don't necessarily strive for perfection,
> what they attempt to contribute will be just that.
> Cannot books be labeled to indicate to the downloaderthat page breaks
> aren't present, whatever.
> Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds -- the downloader is forewarned
> while, at the same time, still having the ability to read something
> otherwise not available.
> Certain things are far more important in a textbook than they would be in
> a Harlequin romance novel.
> While I might not consider it acceptible to read a history text with
> countless errors which might impact the accuracy of the information; the
> mystery I am curling up with on a Sunday afternoon is for the story.
> Hence, if I can follow it, I will put up with a lot of errors.
> It seems, to some degree, in our drive for perfection we're forgetting
> what BookShare was set up as.
> What worries me far more is why it takes so long, in some instances, for
> books to be validated or once validated to be accepted or returned to the
> validation pool.
> That, from where I sit, is a far greater concern as those time delays are
> keeping many folks from enjoying or profiting from material.
> Those processing delays and bureaucratic issues are the very concerns many
> of us express about NLS.
> As Bookshare grows, let us not fall into that same trap.
> A less than optimum book can always be replaced; it doesn't have to be
> posted forever unless we choose it to be.
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