[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 10:50:50 -0500
<smile> Well, people, we are, after all, volunteers. If we are going to
start wanting pay, we will no longer be volunteers in the true sense of the
word. In fact, when I first started volunteering, I told the staff that I
wanted to do it for no credits, because it did not seem like true
volunteering when I got credits for it. Our sighted volunteers get credits
too, but they cannot use them to pay towards a subscription like we can.
And please, I am not wanting to start a ranting session. (smile)
Sue S.
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From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:37 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
Token is right. When I think of the work I put in to get a $2.50 credit
minimum wage starts to look like a fortune.
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From: "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 1:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
> 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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