I'm not being a curmudgeon, really. I'm going to keep scanning. But it
is no longer just recent books that publishers are putting into ebooks
and therefore bookshare. Several times when I found an old copy of a
book that is no longer in print in my collection that I thought, "this
would be great to scan for bookshare." But it turned out to be in the
collection already as a publisher provided book that went in recently.
Overall, I think it is a wonderful thing that publishers are going into
their backlists to put long out of print books out as ebooks because I'm
sighted but hardly read any real books, just ebooks. And at least from
the major publishers everything they put out as ebooks goes to bookshare
as well. So, I will just be hunting more diligently for those books that
still need to be scanned, because they are out there.
Misha
On 2/10/2017 11:33 AM, Evan Reese wrote:
Yes indeed! I've been burned a few times, most recently with a bunch of books I bought over the past couple of years and intended to scan, then the publisher put all of them, about a dozen or so, up in a few days last October.
But I still have a whole lot of books here that don't seem likely to get into the collection if I don't scan them, so I persevere. I enjoy scanning, so as long as there are books Bookshare doesn't have, I'll keep on keeping on.
Also, as you point out, Bookshare is the only place out there that let's us, the members and volunteers, add to its collection. We can choose what we want to scan, however narrow the interest might be. That is one of the things I like best about Bookshare. I, and anyone else who wants to scan and/or proofread, get a say in making books accessible that are not available anywhere else for us to read.
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: tina sohl
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:18 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: free books for scanners
I was thinking about what Rick and others have said, and I think it's
important that we continue scanning if possible. Some people, like me,
have interests that may never get in to the collection othyerwise, and
if something interests me or you, and just one other person, then
scanning was worth it. I so much appreciate this about bookshare. WE
have input in to what's there, not just a librarian, like with NLS, or
editors, as with audible's content. JUst wanted to encourage others
scanning to keep doing so.
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