Guys, let me make a suggestion, and if this is a suggestion from a minority of one and it would inconvenience everyone else then just ignore me. One of the main reasons I am interested in Open Library is that I am blind and Open Library provides a valuable service to us blind people with its accessible books. The email list tends to be accessible too, but not at the height of accessibility. I use a screen reader to read these emails. When I am reading a reply to an email it is better if the reply is found at the top of the screen. For the most part it is not necessary to read the quoted material, but if it is then if that quoted material is located after the reply I can arrow down to make sense of the reply. However, when the quoted material comes first I have to either arrow down looking for the reply or jump straight to the bottom and arrow up looking for the beginning of the reply. When there is a thread with a good many replies piled on this can be a real hunting trip. I do not know quite how an email looks to a sighted person because I became blind twenty-four years ago before I had ever seen an email, but since I was once sighted it seems to me that it would be a bit more convenient for a sighted person to see the reply at the top of the message too, but I really do not know that. I have seen on most email lists that most people do have their email configured to place the reply at the top of the message, so I get the impression that most sighted people prefer it that way. Anyway, I just wanted to suggest that it might be better if everyone had their email configured to place replies at the top of a message if that is not too inconvenient for the rest of you. I am mostly a lurker, though, and I realize that my personal convenience is not a top priority. By the way, for what it's worth, I don't think items that are not books belong in Open Library either. On 8/17/2012 9:35 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> A week ago, Mike Maehr opened issue 152 on GitHub [1]: "Pattern with >>> thousands of really bad author names", referring to names like >>> Count Cddssa 27022 Basie >>> Jimmy Cddelt 24980 Buffett >>> Steve Cdduny 27009 Lacy >>> >>> It appears that the first and last words in these "names" are the real >>> names. But, getting to my point, they are musical artists and these >>> Authors (and their variants) are linked to music CDs only/mostly. I >>> know there are no rules at the Open Library, but I think these items >>> do not belong on OpenLibrary.org. >>> The items were apparently imported from Amazon (some do not exist >>> anymore on Amazon) and they were published by only a limited number of >>> publishers. That could mean it is not too hard to find (and delete?) >>> these records. >>> >>> What do you think? >> I'd be in favor of deleting all non-book cruft with ISBN numbers like >> this, including calendars, blank diaries, multi-packs, posters, >> promotional displays, and CDs. Just because something has been >> assigned an ISBN number to that it can be sold in a book store, >> doesn't make it a book. > See also http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/114-not-a-book > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected]
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