I agree with you and have been wondering just this very thing literally for years. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:22 AMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
Hi all. I apologize in advance if this suggestion ruffles feathers, but it is made in the spirit of getting excellent quality books into the collection. I am one of the volunteers who believes that "validating" a book shouldn't involve rewriting it because the scan is poor. There are some books whichhave strange formatting or difficult tables and charts or other things thattypically don't scan well and the only way to get such books into the collection is in fact for a very patient validator to go through the whole book and fix problematic errors that a rescan won't fix. However, there are a lot of books on the step one download page that are just straightforward text, fiction or nonfiction, that should scan with noproblems, but are rated as fair. In my opinion, it is a waste of volunteertime and effort to have a validator make these scans passable. So here's my alternative. If I, or any other scanner, obtains a copy of a book that is currently awaiting validation and rated fair, would it be appropriate for us to download the fair copy, reject it, and then upload a better scan of the same book? Thoughts? Ideas? No rotten tomatoes please! Donna
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