[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 10:23:35 -0500
Hi Denise and everyone!
Several months ago, I had to buy and do a BSO on a book I was proofing that
an outsourcer had done, because the book was garbled in so many places,
there were pages missing and the last two or three chapters were not
there. There were just a collomn of x's down quite a few pages, starting
in the middle of a page. How could that happen?
Debby
At 12:49 PM 5/7/2010, Denise Thompson wrote
Well, when it comes down to it, there is also a big difference in scanning
and proofing childrens books than doing fiction books. Most childrens'
books are less than 50 pages. Some a lot less. That takes a whole lot less
time than average novels of 200 plus pages. Personally I think there
should be a different credit amount for kids books verses adult books also.
It seems that once we start down that slope, though it starts getting very
complicated and more difficult for book share to track. And the credits
are a tocon anyway. It doesn't have any reference to actual hours spent,
etc. Each of us can scan or proof the same book and it takes us different
time amounts depending on equipment, software and skill- whether you have
sight or not, etc. It's hard to know where the cut-offs should be if we
start assigning differing amounts of credits for different categories of books.
Denise
At 02:51 AM 5/6/2010, you wrote:
I was talking to another BookShare member and I was saying I think
nonfiction books should be worth more credits to the validator/submitter.
For one, they tend to be longer. For another, they often contain charts,
diagrams, section headings, indices, etc. Many special features that need
special handling. Thirdly, they are more difficult to obtain short of
purchasing your own copy. I think people don't touch them immediately
because of the time-consuming nature of validating them. Just a thought.
Andromache
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