I agree with the idea of no longer accepting fair quality scans. There is no reason for it if we are trying to improve the quality of our books.
Why not return the fair quality scans to the people who submitted them and give them the opportunity to edit their own scans? This will still allow them to earn their subscription fee and encourage them to submit higher quality books in the future.
Christina----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:05 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
Good points all! The volunteer manual states: Validators may recommend that a book be rejected for one of the following reasons: List of 5 items . Book does not meet the Requirements Which Books Must Meet Before Being Added to the Collection . Book is of Poor scan-quality . Book is not in the file format specified on the form.. Book is already in the collection, and the existing copy does not need tobe replaced. . Book is a duplicate of a submission by the same volunteer. list endI browsed around through the manual, but didn't find any definition of "poorquality. Can anyone shed clarity on this? I also understand about the credit thing. If a person can only maintaintheir subscription to BookShare by submitting sloppy scans, then I wouldn'twant to deny them their subscription. (I know.It's my bleeding heart thing.) So here's an alternative to the alternative: Those of us who wish to replace a fair quality submission with a better scan, should download the fair quality offering, validate it for administrative approval as a fair quality book which would give the original scanner the credits, and then submit a BSO version of the same book as a replacement for the one justadded to the collection. This creates a little extra work, but not as muchas trying to clean up a bad scan. It would also move some of those books which have been hanging around the step one page because no one wants to touch them. There must be a solution! Donna
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