Useful proposal: CRsociety library

[mccoy]

Dear all and especially so the CR society administrators.

 

I've been sadly noticing the high price of some specialistic books which are surely o finterest to this community.

 

This is an example, related to the recent discussions on EVOO:

 

Olives and Olive Oil as Functional Foods: Bioactivity, Chemistry and Processing (Hui: Food Science and Technology) 1st Edition by Apostolos Kiritsakis (Editor), Fereidoon Shahidi (Editor)

 

It's a very interesting title, partly available on google books but it's US$ 180 or US$ 140 on kindle. The googlebooks preview is consistent but lacks soem parts which may constitute a major hassle.

 

My proposal is briefly:

 

• The CR society acquires some specialistic books of interest as suggested by the members and after scrutiny of the administrators
• The CR society creates an internal library, available only to supporting members, who have access to the textbooks (they can download them or just visualize them). I believe that's possible according to the international laws of copyright.
• The above might be also an incentive to become supporting members of the CR society

 

an alternative would be to make up a collective library creating a buying group where members who are interested would share the cost and one member, who pays maybe the larger share, acquires the book and takes possession of it but scans its content and shares it with the others. Subject to copyright legitimacy. 

 

The above book is of interest to me but I'm reluctant to pay its full price, since there are more similar pricey books and buying them all would definitely not be affordable.

 

Any other suggestions are welcome.

 

[Sibiriak]

Interesting proposal.   Probably wont' happen,  but who knows?

 

 

I'd be willing to kick things off by buying and donating the "Olives and Olive Oil as Functional Foods"  book.     U.S. Amazon shows the Kindle price as $122.39 -- but how can a Kindle version be shared with a group?  

[mccoy]

Hi Sibiriak, 

I believe the kindle version should be converted by some mild hacking into some shareable format like a PDF. I have no idea about the convenience of the final prodct because I never tried.

The paper version would just need to be scanned.

[BrianMDelaney]

McCoy, very good idea. The board should be meeting within a week or two. This idea is now on the agenda. I just want to get our legal minds to give it the once over. But I don't see any problem. Main problem would be lack of electronic versions of many of the books we'd want, not anything legal.

 

Brian

 

[Mechanism]

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[mccoy]

McCoy, very good idea. The board should be meeting within a week or two. This idea is now on the agenda. I just want to get our legal minds to give it the once over. But I don't see any problem. Main problem would be lack of electronic versions of many of the books we'd want, not anything legal.

 

Brian

 

Brian, I believe a simple way to make up for the lack of electronic versions might be to obtain a .PDF copy simply by having the original scanned (which is legal for the book owners)

[BrianMDelaney]

McCoy, having the original scanned would work. Not sure how simple it would be, though. Scanning is a lot of work, no? If you could figure out how to get the scanning done, we can really do this. It would be very helpful. (Again, I need to confirm the legality of it.)

 

Thanks,

Brian

 

[mccoy]

Where I live, there are businesses which do that, for a fee which depends on the total pages of the book. They may offer other solutions or document formats.

[James Cain]

Hey Brian, when you meet, any idea whether a CR annual meeting can be reconsidered? I feel l may have joined too late and misssd the boat :) please update us either way.

 

PS- are board meetings open to the general public to sit in on? The inner workings of CR are a bit of a mystery to me...

 

Brian, any update on Mechanism's questions regarding an annual meeting and the board phone meetings? Also, is the CRSI essentially still is stasis or are there active goals?

[Todd Allen]

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=97BAFD51BB8217AD0425BF78D269907E

[BrianMDelaney]

James, everyone -- myself included -- has been so busy we haven't had time to have a board meeting in months.

 

Let me give another push to people to see whether we can't meet in the next few weeks.

 

Brian

[Mechanism]

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[Saul]

From Jan 17 until April 29, I teach every Monday and Wednesday at the University of Rochester.

 

Aside from that, I'm free.

 

-- Saul