Hey there -- I think the IA scanning assessments are accurate, in fact possibly underestimating, but the path from "scanned book" to "OL-connected resource" is not direct, A lot of different assessments go in to determining what resources wind up on Open Library and their outside of my wheelhouse. So, totally fine if you choose not to donate. I think it's accurate to say that no assurances could be given to you about when your items would appear on OL, if ever.
________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Jon Leech <oddh...@sonic.net> wrote: > I asked this about a year ago and never got a reply (which in a > sense answers my question), but will try again: I've got about 850 old > paperbacks that do not have loanable ebooks in OL, though they do have > records - see > > > https://openlibrary.org/people/oddhack/lists/OL67687L/(Not_Loanable)_Books_In_Library > > I'd be thrilled to donate most of them IF I were completely > confident that they would actually be scanned and offered up for loan in > a reasonably short time, but at this point in time OL appears so > dramatically under-resourced and unresponsive to its users that I have > no such confidence. There's the "Book Drive" page, but that hasn't been > updated, aside from tweaking some of the text / contact info, in 6 > years, and offers no indication of its current status. So I'm skeptical > of "The IA scans over 1,000 books every day" assertion on that page. > > Is there reason to think donating books to IA will produce loanable > ebooks in OL as a result? I'm not trying to be snarky here, it's a > serious question based on how stagnant OL is, and how much work would be > involved in my bringing 30 boxes of books to San Francisco from the East > Bay. > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
