[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See LongSynopsis
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:18:28 -0500
Sad but true, Sara! It is a very old bug. That is why when I replace an
old posting, or modify the synopsis of the submitter, I always repeat
both synopsis in the comments to the administrator field. Most annoying
indeed!
As I recall the issue was also raised and discussed in the volunteer
meeting at CSUN. Can we see this fix sometime, Alison?
Guido
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Is that really true Guido? that is terrible! At least in most cases.
Sometimes a validator's changes to the book info wouldn't be an
improvement, but I would think that would be extremely rare. I would be
extremely frustrated to find that a book I validated and provided more
information for, had the old stuff still there when it was added to the
collection. that is just a waste of everyone's effort.
Sarah
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> Paul, I suspect there are some problems with the system as well. For
> example, if the submitter specifies a synopsis at submission time, or
> leaves it blank, the reviewer's changes wil not be applied. Any
reviewer
> must put his proposed changes/additions in the comment field at approval
> time as a note to the administrator, who will then include those change
> as appropriate. So, if the submitter has stated:
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> "It's all in the title"
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> in the short description, the reviewer's changes will disappear, unless
> the reviewer puts them also in the aforementioned comment field. What
is
> even more irritating is that if your submission is expected to replace
an
> older copy, the short and long descriptions you post will be lost, in
> favor of the old ones.
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> The bottom line is that, while volunteer accuracy does help, a few
well
> placed bug fixes on the volunteer site will help us as well.
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> Please do not get discouraged, you have submitted a lot of excellent
> quality books!
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> Guido D. Corona
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> IBM Research,
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> Two issues. First, would we be better served with a single, slightly
> longer synopsis that would obviate the need for doing two.
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> Second, with many of the books I submitted, I wrote a short and long
> synopsis and only ever saw the short one see the light of day once the
> book made it into the system.
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> I think that there is some merit in doing what Allison has done in the
> newsletters and simply quoting Amazon where available. That is
certainly
> a safe course. I cannot speak for other folks on this list but I know
> that I often scan but do not read so that my synopses are really nothing
> more than capitulations of what I have gleaned from the book cover or
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> Correct. Short summary is just one or max 2 helpful sentences about the
> book. And it should not contain personal editorial comments. Be as
> factual as possible.
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> G.
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> Guido D. Corona
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> This is supposed to be a short summary. If you include "idea taken from
> Amazon.com" it will cut into your allowed summary length. Amber do you
> have no idea what a book is about when you scan it? Just curious.
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> E.
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> At 10:01 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
> >Guido,
> >Would you recommend if we are not good at coming up with summaries of
> our
> >own, can we go to Amazon.com and look at their summary, then make one
up
> >on our own based on that? I wouldn't use the summary directly, but
take
> >the main idea, then in quotes at the end of the summary say, "idea
taken
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