[bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:45:20 -0400
But history books should be rejected if there are abundant and aggregious
errors in names of people and places. History means that's what should be
accurate not die for the or bam for barn, etc.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
> Ken and Julie,
>
> I guess I didn't make myself clear. I wouldn't reject a book until I'd
looked at it and was sure that I couldn't fix it without *too* much trouble.
> I've modified my offer to fix anything and everything, having found myself
working on one book that not only was awful but was boring to
> me. I was afraid the one I'm working on now would require too much work,
from what had been posted about it, but it's quite interesting and
> so the work is not a problem. I keep working beyond the time I'dplanned to
stop just because I want to know what happens next, and I'm so
> involved with the characters.
>
> But Ken, science and history books don't have to be rejected or be
considered unreadable because of the things that don't scan well. The
> maps, diagrams, etc. that you mention can be described, or explained
briefly. Formulae can be expressed in English or with Greek letters or
> Greek letters written as English, e.g., {Greek beta]. I've downloaded and
saved the Greek alphabet because I had just such a situation in a
> book I was validating. Fixing the dates in some histories is a job I won't
offer to do again, though. I finally gave up reading Society in
> Medieval Italy (I can't remember the exact title) and just skimmed looking
for the dates and footnotes and used the spell check and wrote in
> the synopsis that I'll keep the file and if any reader has a problem
figuring something out they can contact me.
>
> I don't understand why some books which are submitted with an Excellent
rating, as Shelley recently posted, appeared on the download list
> as Fair, unless either the scanner didn't put the rating or the automatic
rater over-rode what the scanner put. In case the latter occurs, I
> suggest that scanners check their submissions when they appear on the
download list, which I gather is instantly, to see the rating. Then
> maybe they can post in the discussion or validate it themselves if there's
no way they can change the rating at that point.
>
> Cindy
>
> Let me present another point of view. Almost all advanced science
> books
> will have maps, diagrams, figures, pictures, formulae, and other
> material
> which will not scan well. I don't want to be denied science scans
> just
> because of this. I would rather have the book in a quasi-readable
> form than
> no book at all. In a similar vain, many history books have elaborate
> maps,
> figures, pictures, and foreign words which scanning in its present
> form
> won't make accessible to the blind. Again, I would prefer to have
> what can
> be scanned.
>
> I have read many books which have poor scanning of the top
> line--title or
> whatever--but where the total content of the book is perfect.
>
> Now I will grant that the more pedestrian the book, the more readable
> it is
> likely to be, but there is need for the others. And, by the way,
> anything
> like twenty thousand books, currently in copyright rather than public
> domain, is a goal we are no where near.
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