[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books on the List
- From: Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:26:53 -0400 (EDT)
Patti
Validation is somewhat an arbitrary process as it is done by individuals
who may not necessarily agree 100% on what is fair, good, excellent or
none of the above.
Hence, one person might view a book as "fair" while a second would suggest
that it wasn't good enough for BookShare.
Just because you got enough out of the book -- and that implies that parts
of it were unreadable -- isn't enough to make BookShare.
Really, each page must be readable more or less.
I am guessing that part of the problem with the "Leave it to Beaver Book"
is that it has a lot of pictures which would produce garbage characters.
A validator, seeing all that garbage, might take this to mean that the
book was generally unreadable even if it was.
Some editing, on your part removing this stuff, might create a better
first impression of the book which is what validators often go by.
Remember, a validator isn't required to read the entire book just check
for things.
If I happen to come across much illegible characters, I may make the
assumption that the scan was poor.
Some validators may choose to do clean up on their own. If, however, they
later decide that the book proves more work than the effort would make
worth while, they will either reject the book outright or send it back to
the validation pool for someone else to deal with.
Remember, that validating is being done by volunteers such as yourself;
and you aren't going to find consistency in the process.
So trying to figure out why one book made it and another didn't may prove
an exercise in futility.
Rather, consider how the book that got rejected might be improved
cosmetically to give a better impression to the validator.
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