Hi,I respectfully disagree with you on this. First, I've dealt with some books rated excellent which were in reality very poor scans. For some reason, the Bookshare software thought they were excellent or perhaps the submitter rated them such but words were missing and they weren't good at all. Second, sometimes it isn't the scanner's fault that a book is rated fair. I'm currently working through an enormous stack of files given to me not on Bookshare. They would probably be rated fair or good because of scanning errors but I doubt that anything could be done about it. This is especially common with older books. Carrie submitted an Ellery Queen book that was rated good. It was from the 1930's and I doubt she could've done much better. Also, in the case of people working on their scans to make them excellent, that is becmoing less and less true. What I mean is that more and more often especially with good scanners and OCR packages, scans come out excellent in the first place with no work by submitters. Again, there is no way Carrie could validate every single book she submits but most of them are excellent. I've read raw or nearly raw scans from Bookshare and other places which had minimal errors and hadn't been worked on much if at all.
At 09:24 PM 8/27/07 -0400, you wrote:
Fellow volunteers, I would like to offer a suggestion for your consideration. In the past, we have occasionally discussed needing to tackle the books that linger on step 1. I personally felt bad about people having submitted books that weren't being processed. However, I have come to believe that my efforts were misguided and focused in the wrong direction. I believe there may be a better, more effective way to focus our attention as a group. When I looked last night, there were 405 books awaiting validation on the step 1 page. By looking at the Books In Process list, it is easy to see which books are rated as excellent. I'd like to propose a deliberate shift of our focus so we can process books rated excellent first. The people submitting excellent scans have taken time to proofread their work, and they shouldn't have to wait for approval while we eek out a decent read from a raw scan rated fair.
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