[bksvol-discuss] Re: BPO

  • From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:24:26 -0700

You can by asking to have the book put up for you in order to make it a truly excellent book. I believe several of us do this fairly often. But remember, you can't just do this with the copy you're reading. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx> 

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Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] BPO



A BPO or Better Proof Of is a great idea.

The book wouldn't necessarily need to be resubmitted, just proofed again.

I've read several books and, while I was listening to them, I thought
something like "Why didn't the validator just ask the submitter to rescan
that one page?"  Or, just give me ten minutes with this book to do search
and replaces and it'll be perfect."

I think, and I could be wrong here, that, when a book quality issue is
reported, Bookshare actually gets the book, rescans, and proofs it in-house. All that time and effort might not always be necessary. Don't get me wrong, 
I'm glad they're doing it, but if we can help with some BPO's, why not do
so?
Christina
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Beasley" <mbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Julia" <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: where are all the submits



Hi, Julia.  I completely agree with you, and that is an excellent
question.  I've seen "BSO" (Better Scan Of) a few times, only a few
times,
but maybe we need a "BPO" (Better Proofread Of) designation?

We can only hope that the members who read a book that got "jiffy
proofed"
and needs TLC clicks on that "Poor Quality" thing available to them.   I
think
that's the only chance.

Marilyn

On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Julia wrote:
And what about all the books they don't proofread, shouldn't they all be 
put back to step one so someone who actually reads them can  do their
job?
Julia
----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: where are all the submits



Surely there are enough intelligent people on staff who approve  books
who may notice the same people each proofing say four books a day. Even 
assuming these folks are doing short books staff really  ought to be
able to catch this kind of thing easily and we need  action here from
Pavi, Carrie or whoever on staff can squelch this  sloppy proofing.

E.

At 07:59 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote:

Well, if one person takes, say an average of twenty minutes per  book,
then they can turn over their five books in less than two  hours.

That's just one person. If several people are doing this, then  that
could add up to a lot of books per day that get taken and  sent up to
the admin queue.

And that, of course, assumes that this hypothetical person only  does
five books per day. If they wanted to, they could turn over  quite a
few more books than that.

Evan

----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: where are all the submits



Since they can each only take five books, this still means very  few
fiction books are on the check in books list Roger.

At 01:11 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote:

Nicholas Wilcox and Julie Barrett got them all.

           "Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in
various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx

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There are so few books on check in books page these days and so few 
of them are fiction. What is going on? So little for a proof  reader
to do, sigh!!

E.

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