Dear Booksharian Friends,

It looks as if a Bookshare Volunteer's work is never done because here are 53 more books I'll mail to scanners who request them for free, to scan and submit. Keep or do anything with them except returning them to me.

Please ask for books which interest you by number and name off list at

airadil@earthlink.net

It's first come, first served with a cap of about 5 books per requester. I'll send a few updated lists so you can see which books have been claimed and which remain.

Validators can tell me off list about books you'd like to validate and I'll pass on your information to the person who is scanning the book so they can put a hold on it for you at their discretion. This is first asked first served, too

This list has many books for kids age 8 and up including several series books and books for teens. I've been told that Bookshare is especially appreciative of books on these levels because of their huge award from the department of education. Books 1-37 are for readers age 8 to 20, and 38-53 are for adults

I'm lucky to be able to pick up bags of books at low prices at Library sales. I really appreciate all of you who take these books and scan them. As of two weeks ago they weren't in the collection. If you know of any titles on this list which have been added, please tell me so I can delete them.

Usually about half of the books I list are requested. If you have ideas of other places I can post this list to find more volunteers to scan them, please contact me.

This is a wildly diverse set of books. Enjoy!

Always with love,

Lissi

1. Pokeman Adapted by Tracy West, three paperbacks about 75 pages each, third grade reading level. The titles are:

A. Night in the Haunted Tower

B. Attack of the Prehistoric Pokeman

C. Island of the Giant Pokeman.

4. Horace Splattly: The Cupcaked Crusader, Book 1, by Lawrence David, trade paperback, 137 pages. Horace is the smallest ten year old in town, empowered by his sister's chemically altered cupcakes and forced to wear an ugly, purple outfit.

5. Horace Splattly: The Cupcaked Crusader, When Second Graders Attack, Book 2, by Lawrence David, trade paperback 154 pages. All the food in town has been replaced with bad-tasting snoodles, and kids are throwing gravy snack cup-bombs.

6. Tale of the Unfinished Masterpiece, book 4 of The Rugrats Files, A Time Travel Adventure, by Maria Rosado, trade paperback, 139 pages, ages 8-12. The rugrats go to sixteenth-century Florence, Italy, looking for a palace and Leonardo da Vinci and hoping to fix their broken flying machine.

7. The Big Bang Theory, Butt-Ugly Martians, book 1, by Gerry Bailey, trade paperback, 84 pages. Martians--Doo-wah Diddy, 2-T-Fru-T, and B,Bop-A-Luna are sent to conquer the Earth, but they love fast food, video games, rock music and humans, so they befriend three kids.

8. Crab Cake & Pepper, by Frank Weaver, Jr., trade paperback, 215 pages. 1951, Pepper and his friend try to catch a legendary rainbow trout, and see two ex-cons try to drown a game warden. A border Collie heroically saves the boys.

9. Juice, by Eric Walters, paperback but very white paper and good contrast print, should get an excellent scan, 100 pages, reading level 2.9, for teens and older, about kids in footbal taking steroids.

10. Invasion of the Appleheads, Deadtime Stories, book 2 of 10, by A. G. Cascone, paperback, 128 pages. Their parents are turned into shrunken old applehead dolls, the witches and ghouls look real, can Robin and Andy stop something rotten in Appleton?

11. Blast Off If You Dare: Stories from Space Mountain, by Cathy East Dubowski, trade paperback, 88 pages. Aliens, mosters and spaceships gallore.

12. The Otterbury Incident, by C. Day Lewis, paperback, 190 pages. An imaginative novel about young kids playing football.

13. We Wish You A Scary Christmas, by M. T. Coffin, #16 in the Spinetinglers series, paperback, 135 pages. Santa may be gone for good. Strange people have a prisoner in their basement. You may be captured too, if you help him.

14. Millions, by Frank Cottrell, Boyce, new paperback, 260 pages. Brothers, Damien and Anthony must spend or return a million dollars in seventeen days, when it will become worthless, or before the crooks who stole it catch them.

15. Sisterchicks on the Loose, by Robin Jones Gunn, new paperback, 282 pages. Fun, feel good Penny, a motorcycle mama, and quiet Sharon, become friends as young mothers; and twenty years later, look for lost relatives in Finland.

16. Nighty-Nightmare, by James Howe, sequel to Bunnicula, paperback, 121 pages. Bunnicula's friends have adventures staying in the woods overnight. Ages 8-12.

17. The Secret Journey, by Peg Kehret, hardcover, 135 pages. Twelve-year-old Emma sneaks to join her sick mother and her father on their voyage to France, but is stowed away on Black Lightning, the most terrifying slave ship with a cruel captain. She is marooned after the ship wrecks.

18. The Skeleton on the Skateboard, number 2 in the Graveyard School series, paperback, 120 pages. Skate and Vickie want to learn secrets from a new skateboarder to beat mean Eddie in a contest, but may have to make deadly moves in return.

19. Frankenstine Moved in on the Fourth Floor, by Elizabeth Levy, A Trophy Chapter Book, ages 7-10, RL 2.6, paperback, 57 pages. What is wrong with Mr. Frank? He's mean, uses too much electricity and moans come from his apartment. Could he be the real Frankenstine?

20. Starbright and the Dream Eater, by Joy Cowley, hardcover, 139 pages. Why is the twon worried about a mysterious sickness, that Starbright thinks is a media scare? Then Mark, her best friend, falls asleep and won't wake up.

21. The Stowaway: A Tale of California Pirates, by Christiana Gregory, hardcover, 126 pages. 1818, eleven-year-old Carlito, thinks seeing pirates is exciting until they savage his town and kill his father. Seeking revenge, he sneaks aboard the ship when it sails.

22. Songs of Power, by Hilari Bell, hardcover, 219 pages. Imina doesn't know about quarks and equations, but she knows magic, summons spirits and sees visions. Her Grandma, an Inuit shaman, was teaching her, but dies. Imina lives in an underwater lab, where magic is not allowed. Deep sea damage is being done by an evil magic maker and Imina wants to stop the destruction.

23. The Worm Tunnel: A Finnegan Zwake Mystery, by Michael Dahl, paperback, 163 pages. Thirteen-year-old Zwake, and his uncle, a mystery writer, are digging for dinosaur eggs and dig up murder. Zwakes parents are missing as well.

24. Laggan Lard Butts, by Eric Walters, paperback, 108 pages. High interest, low vocabulary. A quitter never wins, and a Lard Butt never quits.

25. Wild Horse Running, by Sam Savitt, paperback, 153 pages. About the wild mustang's deep need for freedom.

26. 26l. Mucho Madness: Spy Kids Adventures Number 3, by Elizabeth Linhard, paperback, 136 pages. Going to visit Nana in Spain, the kids are told to stop a crazy architect using a chemical to make everyone extra sleepy.

27. OSS Wilderness: Spy Kids Adventures Number 4, by Elizabeth Lenhard, paperback, 128 pages, ages 8-12. Carmen and Juni go to OSS for camp for training and fun. The director is hypnotizing campers to take over the world.

28. Superstar Spies: Spy Kids Adventures Number 7, by Elizabeth Linhard, paperback, 139 pages. The kids are sent a rock star whose talent comes from a jewel that gives power to the owner.

29. Homeless: Sunita, Vet Volunteer, Wild at Heart Series Number 2, American Girl, by Laurie Halse Anderson, brand new paperback, 126 pages. The vet's cat is missing and Sunita finds a pack of feral cats instead. /The vet says that the cats are wild, but Sunita thinks she can tame them and find homes for them.

30. Trickster: David Vet Volunteer, Wiald at Heart Series Number 3, by Laurie Halse Anderson, paperback, 120 pages. Trickster's leg is hurt in a trailer accident. Maggie will watch over him and prove she's responsible enough to ride him.

31. Say Good-bye: Zoe Vet Volunteer, Wild at Heart Series Number 5, by Laurie Halse Anderson, paperback, 125 pages. Yum-Yum, the therapy dog, who visits kids with cancer, has a mouth tumor. Who will comfort the kids if Yum-Yum has to say goodbye?

32. The Haunted Trail: Phantom Rider Book 2, by Janni Lee Simner, RL 5, ages 10-12, paperback, 139 pages. Star is chasing Pepper, who throws Callie. Callie wonders if her horse, Pepper, really loves her before the world goes dark.

33. Ghost Vision: Phantom Rider Book 4, by Janni Lee Simner, RL 5, ages 10-12, paperback, 137 pages. Callie helps to clear the land for their new house and pool to earn horseback riding lessons.

34. Trial by Fire: Bionicle Adventures Number 2, by Greg Farshtey, paperback, 136 pages. The Toa are searching for the Disks of Power to defeat Morbuzakh.

35. Escape to Deer Island: Twin Adventure Escape, by Jeanette Windle, paperback, 125 pages. Justin is in danger alone in the freezing wilderness at night.

36. The Mermaid Summer, by Mollie Hunter, hardcover, 119 pages. Kids seek their grandfather, whom they believe was lured away by a mermaid.

37. Waterman's Boy, by Susan Sharpe, hardcover, 170 pages. Ben's father is a waterman on the Chesapeake Bay. Ben wants to be a waterman too. He discovers oil in the water and tries to do something about it.

Adult Books

38. The Wings of the Morning, by Thomas Tryon, hardcover, 567 pages. First in the romantic Kingdom Come series, Christian fiction. Feuding elders separate young Aurora and Sinjin. Hired girl befriends them and is strengthened by tragedy. Adventure, power and conviction.

39. Pure Poetry, by Binnie Kirshenbaum, hardcover, 203 pages. Smart-mouthed Jewish beauty craves sex and always lies and writes smutty poetry. She will win your heart, when she leaves her husband for other lovers. Ghosts move into her apartment and she can't write poetry.

40. Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton, by Michael Schumacher, hardcover, about 385 pages, with discography 1964-94, timeline and index.

41. The Purification Ceremony, by Mark T. Sullivan, hardcover, 335 pages. Diana is at home in the Maine wilderness. She goes with seven hunters to British Columbia to track white tailed deer and resolve issues in her past.

42. Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson, hardcover, clear large type, 570 pages. Travel literature about the author's experiences in Australia. He also wrote A Walk in the Woods and I'm A Stranger Here Myself.

43. Bad Medicine: An Ella Clah Novel, by Aimee and David Thurlo, hardcover, 350 pages. Former FBI agent, Ella, has returned to the reservation and investigates a politically sensitive case while protecting a dear friend from unjust persecution.

44. Sixpence in Her Shoe, by Phyllis McGinley, hardcover, 280 pages. About the American housewife, semiautobiographical. Into the hands of a woman, life has dropped its most significant duties.

45. Tennessee: Cry of the Heart by Dotson Rader hardcover, 348 pages. Friend of Tennessee Williams writes memoir of the playwright's final years. Includes hundreds of anecdotes, some feature famous people like Marlon Brando, Norman Mailer, Castro and Elizabeth Taylor.

46. Dragons and Dragon Lore, by Ernest Ingerson, trade paperback, 203 pages. Fascinating information about the oldest mythological story in the world. Similar stories exist world wide of this elusive, powerful creature. China, Korea, India and Japan, Babylonian, Egyptian, Welsh, Irish, English and other tales.

47. The Big Picture, by Douglas Kennedy, hardcover, excellent condition. 374 pages. Ben has a beautiful family, house and job at a prestegious law firm; but he's deeply unhappy. He'd rather be a photographer, and his wife doesn't like him anymore. When he confronts her lover, his life changes in a split second.

48. Let the Hurricane Roar, by Rose Wilder Lane, paperback, wide margins, 120 pages, ages 10 and up. Newlyweds, Molly and David, are only 16 and 18 when they go west. A baby is born, David goes east to work and Molly is left alone for the hard prairie winter.

49. The Love-Powered Diet: When Will Power Is Not Enough, by Victoria Moran, hardcover, 309 pages. Includes menus, about 30 recipes, a short index and bibliography.

50. For Yourself, The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality, by Lonnie Barbach, Ph.D., trade paperback, 238 pages. A guide to achieving orgasms, should be read by women and their partners.

51. A Case of Curiosities, by Allen Kurzweil, like new hardcover, 358 pages. Curiosities found in Paris after two centuries trace adventures of a young man destined to be France's most gifted inventor, begins when Claude is ten years old.

52. Buy Back the Dawn, by Nicholas Garland, hardcover, 248 pages. Romance, no dust jacket.

53.Leap of Faith Memoirs of an unexpected Life by Queen Noor, like new hardcover 466 pages, Accepted to the first female freshman class at Princeton where she earned degrees in architecture and city planning, in 1974, Blonde Lisa Halaby met King Husein two years later and became Queen of Jordan.

PROJECT GEMSTONE

Fellow Booksharians, it's time to honor and celebrate our validaters. By now, I'm sure you've heard about Project Treasure Chest, a project to encourage submitters to submit ten excellent scans. Now it's time to show some love and respect for our unsung heroes, our validaters. Books can't get approved without these hard-working men and women, so it is my honor and pleasure to announce ... Submitters have open their Treasure Chests, now it's time for Project Gemstone!

Here's how it works. Each person who validates 10 books that go into the collection with an excellent rating between now and April 30, 2008, will be recognized on a special Project Gemstone web page and will be entered into a drawing for one of six 20-dollar Amazon gift certificates. On top of that, you'll have earned $25 in credit from Bookshare toward your next year's subscription. The drawing will occur on Monday, June 2, 2008. There are a couple of guidelines put in place to make sure this is fair to everyone. Everyone here is a person of integrity, and these are designed to give everybody a fair shot. Please read on.

1. Validate any book you like from the step 1 page, making sure it is in excellent condition when you upload it.

2. Please email me a list of the ten books you have validated at rhyami@gmail.com by April 30, 2008.

3. Please include no more than 2 books of under 50 pages in your 10 qualifying validations. It's not fair for someone to validate ten picture books while someone else is struggling through a monster of a book like War And Peace.

4. Please validate books from several submitters with no more than 3 "hold for" books in your list of ten validations.

I'm excited about seeing our validaters get the recognition they deserve. You are all gems, shining your lights quietly as you volunteer. Now it's time that the world sees your lights and knows who you are. The books you work on now will be treasure for many people in the future. Like gemstones, their value will live on through time, giving pleasure to each person who possesses them.

Monica Willyard
rhyami@gmail.com

Project Treasure Chest

If you own a scanner, this message is for you! Let's liven things up a little around here and have some fun doing it. Let's do something we haven't done before. Read to the end of this message to find out what I mean.

Did you know we're getting mighty close to the 50,000 books mark? Can you imagine how good it will feel to celebrate it and tell our friends that we have 50,000 books in our collection? How cool would it be if yours is book number 50,000? What if we can make that happen without turning into zombies who scan 'round the clock?

I've been talking to several Bookshare submitters and have found out that we have something really cool in common. A lot of us scan more books than we actually submit. This is usually because we scan books for ourselves and then keep on scanning more books ahead of what we're actually reading. Some of us have hard drives and memory cards full of scanned books that just need to be cleaned up a bit before submission. It's just a matter of sitting down for a little while to do a spell check and make sure all the pages are there. Yet this seems like more work than just scanning while we do other things.

These books are like buried treasure, hidden in the depths of our hard drives. If we've scanned a certain book to read, it's almost a guarantee that someone else wants to read the book too. Unlike treasure buried in the ground, treasure on a hard drive can be so easily lost by something as common as a power failure.

So let's do something cool, calling it Project Treasure Chest. Let's take a little time during these cold winter months to open our treasure chests to clean up and submit some of the books we already have scanned. In return, you'll get some treasure of your own. Besides knowing that other people are enjoying your books, I want to do something to recognize each person who submits ten excellent scans between today, January 10, and March 30 of this year. To do that, I'm going to do two things. I'm going to make a special web page to honor each of the Project Treasure Chest submitters. On top of that, I'm going to offer 3 prizes out of my own pocket. On may 1, I'm going to ask a Bookshare staff member to draw three names from a hat. Each of these three people will receive a 20 dollar gift certificate from Amazon.

Project Treasure Chest is open to everyone who is a Bookshare volunteer. It doesn't matter whether you're brand new or have been a volunteer for years. All you have to do to be listed on the special web page and become eligible for the Amazon prizes is to submit 10 books that are in excellent condition and email me a list of your submissions. These books must be validated to verify that they are in excellent shape since it is the only way I know of to make sure that people don't just submit fair and incomplete books to win a prize. That is why I'm waiting for several weeks after the cut-off date to get the books into the Bookshare collection. These can be BSO scans of books that need it, books you scanned for yourself, or books from the wish list. The only requirement is that they need to be in excellent condition. Excellent doesn't mean perfect. It does mean clear and legible text. You'll need to email me your list of titles since it's the only way I'll know who is participating and how to get in touch with you. My email address is rhyami@gmail.com . I'll be working to validate your books, as will many other volunteers.

So will you join me in uncovering our buried treasures? Are you ready to celebrate 50,000 books?

If you're a person who validates instead of scanning, don't worry. I'm going to think of something fun for you too. Since validaters aren't listed on the Bookshare site, it's a lot harder to see who is doing what. That's ok though. I'm not going to leave you folks out. You're too important for that. If you'll help me get the ball rolling here, I promise you we'll do something for validaters soon.

Finally, if you know anyone who volunteers but is not on the Bookshare lists, please pass this along to them. We all win when people take part.

Monica Willyard, who has a treasure chest of her own to share.

Bookshare Trivia

Below is a list of the book categories and the number of books in each category as of December 31, 2007.

Animals 1,332
Art and Architecture 167
Biographies and Memoirs   2,564
Business and Finance   513
Children's Books   3,846
Computers and Internet   798
Cooking, Food and Wine   271
Disability Related 923
Entertainment   561
Gay and Lesbian   729
Health, Mind and Body   1,257
History   3,735
Home and Garden   123
Horror   592
Literature and Fiction   14,138
Military   798
Mystery and Thrillers   5,433
Nonfiction   8,718
Outdoors and Nature   615
Parenting and Family   847
Poetry   525
Professional and Technical   554
Reference   792
Religion and Spirituality   2,605
Romance   3,244
Science   818
Science Fiction and Fantasy   5,061
Self Help   1,028
Sports   290
Teens   1,626
Textbooks and Educational Materials   1,323
Travel   280
Westerns   581

Friends of Bookshare Planning Committee

Members of the Friends of Bookshare planning committee represent a team of highly motivated volunteers, with a wealth of experience from the diversified fields of education, Library science, Rehabilitation, business, and technology, who are dedicated to support the purpose and goals of Bookshare.org.

Jim Baugh Kentucky jim.baugh@insightbb.com
Robert Acosta California boacosta@pacbell.net
Fred Bertelsen Mississippi fbertelsen@frontiernet.net
Scott Blanks California scottsjb@flash.net
Jane Dickison Illinois jane53@mchsi.com
Lisa Friendly California Lisa.f@benetech.org
John Glass California John.g@benetech.org
Louise Gourdoux Wisconsin bookscanner@centurytel.net
Joy Jackson Washington JJLjackson@aol.com
Franklin Johnson Missouri franklin1234@sbcglobal.net
Susan Lumpkin Texas slumpkin@austin.rr.com
Pat Price Indiana pat@patprice.org

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April 8 2008 Book Preferences Discussion
January 15 2008 Engineers Discuss Bookshare Improvement Tools December 18 2007 OpenBook 8.0 AUDIO DOWNLOAD
December 4 2007 The 12 Stories Before Christmas AUDIO DOWNLOAD
November 27 2007 The future of Bookshare with Jim Fruchterman CEO AUDIO DOWNLOAD
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November 20 2007 Chat With Jake Brownell from Benetech DOWNLOAD SUMMARY
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October 4 2007 validating
October 2 2007 VR Stream Hands On Training
September_12_2007_Harry_Potter_DOWNLOAD AUDIO
September 11 2007 Volunteer Manual DOWNLOAD AUDIO
August 28 2007 Blogs DOWNLOAD AUDIO
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August 7 2007 Bookshare.org for schools and groups: 101 DOWNLOAD AUDIO
August 7 2007 Bookshare.org for schools and groups: 101 DOWNLOAD SUMMARY
July 31 2007 Planning the web site AUDIO DOWNLOAD
July 17 2007 K1000 AUDIO DOWNLOAD
July 10 2007 Where to find books DOWNLOAD AUDIO
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July 3 2007 Promoting Bookshare DOWNLOAD AUDIO
June 26 2007 Validating DOWNLOAD SUMMARY
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June 12 2007 Getting good scans DOWNLOAD SUMMARY
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June 5 2007 First meeting DOWNLOAD AUDIO

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