There was a new update for Bookshare that was released yesterday. The update
included a new layout for the title/metadata page. The new layout shows one
synopsis - the complete (long) synopsis by default, unless one is not
available. With this change, we would recommend only filling out the complete
synopsis when you submit books.
This update is the first part of an effort to include cover art on the title
and search results pages. We ask that you not share the news about cover art
to anyone outside this group. It is news that we're trying to keep quiet until
it is ready for release, hopefully in March.
We have already submitted the missing paragraph breaks in the synopsis to our
engineering team. We welcome any additional feedback you may have about the
new layout.
Valerie, I forwarded your email to our collections team and they recommended
that you submit a book quality report for it. They will investigate the issue
with the converter.
Vanessa
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on behalf of Valerie Maples <vlmaples1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:49:26 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What happened to the Long Synopsis for books?
I am guessing that is best; I just didn’t know how active a role she plays in
processing since her roles are different than Madeleine’s were.
Valerie
On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:29 AM, Judy s.
<cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Might be worth emailing Vanessa instead of filing a book quality report, since
you know what the file you submitted was supposed to be like versus what the
converter did to it. Just a thought!
Judy s.
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On 2/23/2017 1:13 AM, Valerie Maples wrote:
It just got in the collection this week and I found the problem today,
comparing it to our submissions. Didn’t know if there was a better way to deal
with it than a book quality report. Pretty tough since it was nearly every
page.
Valerie
On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:11 AM, Judy s.
<cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
That's just weird, Valerie! Did you send an email in about it, since it
happened to a BSO you guys scanned yourselves?
Judy s.
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On 2/23/2017 12:42 AM, Valerie Maples wrote:
It is definitely the long synopsis, but paragraph breaks have been removed. I
checked a couple of our books where I’d saved our long synopses to confirm. I
do not like the paragraphs being run together!
And speaking of “issues,” we recently did a BSO of “In A People House” to
replace some missing words and restore some formatting and punctuation. Odd
thing is it removed all the bolding and replaced most of it with italics, but
pages where all the words were bold were set to regular. Very frustrating!
Valerie
