[Dtb-talk] A question about preferred book formatting

[Tim Gillett]

Peter, 

I dont want to come across sounding like an apologist for Talking Book producers
 who dont add full DAISY navigation to an old recording,
 but as Greg said,  to add navigation to a title that never had navigation markers in the first place 
is much harder than if freshly recording the book with DAISY  recording software.

To my knowledge there is no magic software program which can recognize the chapter breaks in the narrator's voice.
At some point book producers have to make a decision on a case by case basis as to whether it is worth
converting a given title to digital at all, let alone manually add complex  DAISY navigation. 

Limited resources have to be used in the best possible way for the benefit of all readers. 
So the time spent adding navigation to one old title might   be better spent  digitising ten other old titles
 - but with no navigation added -  that otherwise would never have been digitised at all.

If producers chose to spend hours adding DAISY navigation to one obscure  title that almost nobody ever borrowed, 
instead of plain digitising  ten  popular titles, I guess there would justifiably be an outcry amongst readers.
The democractic principle comes in at some point.

Regards,

Tim Gillett
Audio/Electronics Technician
Perth, Western Australia