[bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
- From: "Sharon" <mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:47:58 -0400
Textbooks are difficult to scan when they have tables, sidebars, pictures,
captions, weird column layouts, graphs, etc. Sharon
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:25 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
I've been thinking about what many of you have said. I can see both sides
of this issue to a point. It leads me to some questions. Is it the nature
of textbooks that they will scan poorly? Dr. Cross seems to do a very nice
job with his, and some of those are over 1,000 pages. Is a poorly scanned
textbook actually useful to a student? I don't know the answer to this
since I scanned my own textbooks for college back in the early 90s.
Maybe I'm just in a clutter clearing mood this week. In the past, I was
more likely to take a scan rated good or fair if I could see the name of the
submitter and knew I could contact that person. Even now, I'd take on a
book with a warning that the book was a really tough scan, is a requested
textbook for someone, or that it's a person's first few scans. Seeing a
book uploaded by the infamous "a Bookshare volunteer" is sort of like poison
ivy to me. I don't touch it unless I have to. A book marked as fair and
that is anonymous as well is something I don't want to deal with unless I
have tons of free time and nothing else to scan or validate. I used to
spend weeks on such books, especially textbooks, and it made me feel
stressed and sort of crazy trying to fix it all because I knew students
would be using the books. I can't help but wonder if anyone even read those
books. By the time I was able to validate them into legible shape, the
person's class would have been over long ago.
Monica Willyard
Grandma Cindy wrote:
Cindy Ray/Lou,
You make some good points. Re number three, though--if
the person who needs the text submitted it, he/she has
it. If it's someone who asked for a scan, he/she can
validate it and use it at the same time. smile
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