[bksvol-discuss] Re: Funny Scanno

  • From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:16:02 -0500

Dear Booksharian Friends,

My conscience won't let me get away with that blarney about making only 3 mistakes in a book. What I said was true. What I didn't say was that the book was an easy book for kids in lower grades, a very, very, short, walk in the park kind of book!

I catch as many scannoes as I can, but among my Booksharian friends, I'm way down on the perfectionist continuum. That's why I'm scared to examine books in the collection that I've worked on. Since I'm a well meaning volunteer who is all too prone to miss errors crying out to be fixed, I don't feel critical of others.

Now you know the secret of my 3 mistake wonder scan, let me advise all of you to grab a short children's book now and then. Easy books are great for the morale!

Always with love,

Lissi
----- Original Message ----- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 6:37 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Funny Scanno


Dear Ann,

Validating slowly because you're reading every word may be taxing but it isn't thankless!

I'm thanking you right now! I appreciate the effort you are putting in to your validations very much!

I enjoy so many aspects of reading, time spent with new people in new places, the emotional journey, the author's style, every word of the book! It really distracts and interferes with the flow of the content when I stumble on one error after another, errors print readers don't have to contend with.

Nine Coaches Waiting was a great read, but almost all of the French words, and they were many since the novel is set in France, were mangled! The hero's name was spelled at least 20 different ways! I was itching to BSO the book, knowing all the while I probably wouldn't because I have a stack of books that rises through the stratosphere in mind to scan and validate.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night was a fabulous book, dramatic and a unique view of the way an autistic teenager might perceive the world, but the boy was a math genius and almost all of the numbers including the page numbers were wrong, mixed, missing or misrepresented in some way. The boy often talked about math but I couldn't follow any of his explanations of formulas etc. because they were randomly and always incorrectly reproduced. The text in this book was admirably correct, but numbers were important and they were unreadable as was the code for the mathematical operations being illustrated.

The spell checker wouldn't catch the math mistakes, and the validator probably ignored it when the spell checker said the French words were wrong. Had these books been read through, the submittor or validator would have fixed the French and math or passed the books on to people familiar enough with French and math to prepare them accurately.

Believe me, Ann, whenever I read a crisp, accurate book, I am thanking the validator and submittor on every page! I'm currently reading Heart Shaped Box, depressing and scary, but suspenseful and a tribute to Bookshare at its best because it's only a few molecules shy of perfect. It's a New York Times submission so Carrie is the one to thank, Carrie or just maybe another staffer who prepared this horror novel the horror group will be discussing at the end of this month.

When I work on a book, I keep books like Heart Shaped Box in mind, doing my level best, word by word, to make the book I will be uploading as close to its perfection as Possible.

Ann, you and I aren't the only ones who work so hard on books. Jackie validated one of my scans and in friendship and fun, wrote to me that I put an apostrophe for a quote, missed a quote and had a slash for a comma, and those were the only mistakes. Just think. She read the whole book word by word to find those errors. Jill, Susan L. Cat Lover Lori, and, of course, Evan, are just as meticulous. There are other validators just as careful who I can't name because I haven't gone through the process with them, but I know they are out there every time I read a nearly error free book.

The work is worth it, Ann! Keep it up!

Keep up the interesting and entertaining posts, too. I feel much more capable of taking on the world knowing Athena sprang from Zeus's forehead!

Always with love,

Lissi

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:20 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Funny Scanno


Hi all,

Wow, Cindy4, didn't realize that the book had been in the collection. The problem is that a spell checker wouldn't catch rabies as opposed to rubies because both words are spelled correctly. An excellent reason for reading your validations. that is why, for example, that it is taking me so long to validate books. I'm doing one currently which has all the headers, but no page numbers in it. I'm forced to place the numbers in myself. Also, the dingdong chapter headings aren't available either. Man, this is sometimes a thankless job. <smiling> My other problem is that this particular author is boring, boring, boring, boring! His imagery is trite. His info is sometimes wrong, he talks about Juno springing fully grown from the forhead of Zeus. That, my friends, is a major gaff in his knowledge of Greek mythology. It wasn't Juno or Hera it was Athena, Zeus' daughter who sprung fully grown from the forehead of Zeus. <sigh> Juno goes with Jupiter, (Roman pantheom) Hera goes with Zeus, (Greek pantheon)! <grumble, grumble> His plot lines are staid and stodgey and as predictable as taxes. His constant harping on religious conversion is getting old fast! If y'all who are Christians and wanting Christian mystery fiction, you're welcome to this guy Box. But I could write better stuff. Hmmm, maybe I should try. I could probably do better than this guy, no way is he in line for the Golden Dagger or anything else. Sorry, folks, but this is the one disadvantage of good validating. If you don't like the book, it's a bit squeaky.

Hope on, hope ever.

Ann P.

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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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http://www.portaltutoring.info
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost."

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