[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:36:43 -0700
I'll tell yall what, folks--I am absolutely utterly & profoundly
astounded at how much cleaning up of this book I'm doing that was
rated frickin excellent on step 1! Somehow it just does not seem quite
right-- oodles & oodles ofspurious characters, quite a few letters
messed up, & I'm rather suspecting even some missing pages, though
it's hard to prove cuz the numbers jive but not the text. Another
quarter per hour project. Or less--Lol! & I'll tell yall what some
more--if I paid for a membership & downloaded this book in the
condition it's in now, I would be sooo royally torked! So even those
books w/excellent ratings--'taint necessarily so. Bookshare really
needs to get a prevalidating tool up & running. Or maybe it's just
that I'm a perfectionist & I need to quit worrying about it, do the
minimum, & throw it back up w/all the garbage intact. I somehow just
cannot bring myself to do it. I really think a prevalidating tool &
refusal to accept books (at least for credit) that aren't good (or
maybe even excellent) quality would be a real start. As it is now, q&d
validators & scanners get credits quickly (so long as the stuff isn't
rejected) while those who are careful about their work struggle to get
theirs.
On 1/14/08, Allison Hilliker <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If one does follow Donna's suggestion of submitting excellent copies of fair
> quality books on the step one page, I have one request. Please submit your
> excellent copy to the step one page before rejecting the fair quality scan.
> I say this because I know of scanners who reject books because they say they
> will submit a better scan, and then they don't do it.
>
> Just my thoughts,
>
> Allison
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:22 AM
> Subject: [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 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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