[bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
- From: "Rui Cabral" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:10:35 -0400
Hi:
According to the guidelines for approval Jesse posted on 8/13/04, any book
missing more then 1 page of core material, (not counting table of contents,
indexes, notes, etc) should be rejected unless you can get the book and
rescan the missing pages.
here it is:
5. The book is not missing multiple pages of core
content (core content does not include tables of
contents, indeces, picture pages, or other front or
back matter and the like).
-- End of quote.
Submitters, please do not misunderstand, submitting the "complete" book is
desirable including those indexes, notes, etc. But those items being
missing should not preclude an acceptance.
Regarding this excerpt, i asked him whether multiple pages meant more then 1
and he said yes.
So Jesse, please clarify that to the list as you did with me.
I really don't want to see books approved with missing pages and from what I
gather, neither does bookshare.
(a mostly garbled page is the same as missing, it is unreadable and might
as well not be there since it is just junk characters)
I am not trying to start another firestorm over text quality, everyone
should know my opinion by now. This issue is completely different, you
can't read a page if it isn't there, whether it's fair, good or excellent.
Just as an aside, it happens to the best of us. my girlfriend scanned a book
that i was validating, and she missed 2 pages somewhere in the middle. And
after teasing her about rejecting it, she rescanned those 2 pages and I was
able to validate a complete book. So as you can see, I'm equal opportunity.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A plea to submitters
> Guys, could you please check that you haven't missed any pages, before you
> submit? A page check is very easy; control-pagedown in Word takes you to
> the top of every page, right where the page number usually is.
> The last 2 books I have validated have been missing a couple pages. I've
> approved them anyway, because it wasn't enough to make a huge difference,
> but it's also something that can be easily avoided, if the person with the
> book in their hand would only take a little more care.
> Submitters get $2.50 for their work, while validators like me get a
whopping
> $0.50, while seemingly doing a lot more work, if we take the job
seriously.
> All I ask is that submitters take their part of the job seriously, too.
> Tracy
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