[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:49:02 -0800 (PST)
No validator would object to validating a book like
that, Gary. We expect to do some work, and feel guilty
if there's nothing to do but enjoy the read,
especially now that there's equal pay.
I read what I validate, and can tell you that even
with 99.4 accuracy but will be something for me to do,
because even the K1000 ranked spelling won't catch
homonyms or the number 1 for the capital I or some
other things I can't think of at the moment. smile
G.Cindy
--- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've tried it both ways and emotionally prefer a
> clean scan, but i must say
> that there were times when I carried it too far. If
> I can get pages to
> about 99.4 accuracy, there's a good chance that I
> will have pages which can
> be cleaned up with not too much work--certainly no
> more work than the time
> it would take to optimize a book and probably
> somewhat less. I did one
> book, optimizing all the way, and it was not an
> experience I'd willing
> repeat. Btw, I will submit this book as soon as I
> can read through and,
> since it has a few graphs, I will ask someone
> sighted to take a look at a
> print copy and help out. Not at all a long book,
> 250 pages, but a few
> graphs.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:39 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to
> validating fair quality
> submissions
>
>
> > Hi Donna,
> >
> > I personally, think it is a great idea. I have
> been disheartened lately
> > at the number of fair and good submissions on the
> step 1 page awaiting
> > validation. Chances are that a rescan of a book
> raited fair would take
> > less time than actually fixing a scan of less than
> excellent quality.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Mayrie
> >
> > At 07:22 AM 1/12/2008, you wrote:
> >>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 which
> >>have strange formatting or difficult tables and
> charts or other things
> >>that typically 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 no
> >>problems, but are rated as fair. In my opinion,
> it is a waste of
> >>volunteer time 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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