[bksvol-discuss] Re: Comments on Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:22:51 -0600
If this is the case, we might as well just go back to accepting fair quality
books, if quantity is becoming more important than quality.
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From: EVAN REESE
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Comments on Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
I don't know the answer to that, but the outsourcers do a great many books.
There may just be too many books and not enough proofreaders for them all.
Bookshare has to meet a goal stipulated by the grant they got, and it may be
that they decided that there just wasn't enough time or resources to read all
those books that need to be scanned to meet the number. Or, perhaps a better
way of putting it would be that there was a cost/benefit decision made that the
gain in quality by reading through each book wasn't an efficient use of
resources if the scans were deemed to be good enough to qualify as excellent in
most cases.
All this is just speculation on my part, so it could be totally wrong.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: solsticesinger
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Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 7:13 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Comments on Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
So, if they don't read through their scans, why aren't they put up for
other, more careful, proofers to take care of?
----- Original Message -----
From: EVAN REESE
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 3:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Comments on Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Nah, they don't read through their scans. I've mentioned here before that
there was evidence to show that they didn't, and this just adds to it.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: solsticesinger
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 3:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Comments on Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
I just finished reading Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, which was added to
the collection by an outsourcing group in Africa. This is one of the worst
outsourced scans I've seen. In fact, I wonder if anyone bothered to proof it at
all.
The book switched point of view often, and there was no indication of
this in the scan. Therefore, it was impossible to know which character was
speaking at any given time. In fact, due to the lack of headers, it was
impossible to determine how many narrators even existed.
I saw several very common scanning errors that could have been fixed,
if only the book had been read through. "hail" for "hall" is an example.
I really looked forward to reading this book, but was sorely
disappointed by the scan. It really does need to be redone, IMO.
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