Just to make it clear, I was not complaining about the pay. As a matter of fact, if my main concern was the accumulation of those $2.50 credits I would go back to just proofing rather than scanning and choose the easiest shortest children's books, or if I did continue the scanning I would choose something easier than these mostly nonfiction books I am doing. I was just agreeing and emphasizing the point that the credits are only tokens and since they are tokens I am quite satisfied that the most difficult book gets the same token as the easiest fifteen page book about Big Bird. I use a Big Bird book as an example because it was the easiest one I have done. It took about five minutes to earn that credit.
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<smile> Well, people, we are, after all, volunteers. If we are going tostart wanting pay, we will no longer be volunteers in the true sense of theword. 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 truevolunteering when I got credits for it. Our sighted volunteers get creditstoo, 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.----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. _ _ _ "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 1:49 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit SuggestionWell, 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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2857 - Release Date: 05/06/10 01:26:00 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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