Re: Daisy Player, Victor Speech and Bookshare.org Questions

[Cheryl Homiak]

I can confirm what Travis says  about the quality of the bookshare  
books. I am considering subscribing again just because there are some  
books I can get only there. However, I was apalled to find, as Travis  
says, so many errors and even garbled pages in books supposedly with  
few errors. I realize volunteers do them, but I can't figure out how  
they come up with the ratings. I would NEVER use the service to have  
a book embosed in braille unless I had been through it myself and  
corrected it. I believe you can submit corrections but you'd have to  
have the print book to do it fully and in some cases you might as  
well just resubmit the whole book. I realize most of the books are  
submitted by fellow subscribers but if I was submitting a book to  
bookshare you can be sure I would have fully proofread and corrected  
what I could before submitting. Maybe there's something about this I  
don't understand; I'm not meaning to be harsh in my criticism but it  
does seem to me that many of the books could be better prepared or at  
least better classified as to quality.

Gutenberg is a good source for public domain abooks and they do have  
quite a bit of spanish.



--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".