[bksvol-discuss] Re: Getting burned out
- From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:20:46 -0400
Hi Monica:
I definitely understand the burned out feeling. I think it was last summer
or fall I felt so burned out that I just had to stop validating. I was so
frustrated with books that needed a lot of work that I couldn't take it any
more. So I scanned books that I wanted to read instead.
Now I have validated 2 books in the past month, and they were not quick
validations.
So do yourself a favor and take the time you need.
Grace
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books on step 1 ten months old or older
Hi, Cindy. I think we have an active validating community because of what
I see in the admin queue. Of course, we always do need more validaters.
I think, in the case of these older books, that they haven't been
validated due to format and subject matter. I can only share where I am
in validating at the moment. I have validated 16 books in the past month,
and I have scanned 7 books while validating. I used to agonize over
fixing up the more obscure books and textbooks because I wanted people to
get their credit for scanning. I'm burned out on those books and promised
myself a summer vacation of only working on books that I genuinely want to
read. I still care about submitter's getting their credit, but I just
can't stand
to read a lot of serious nonfiction right now. I'm hoping that taking the
summer off will help me feel more like working on these kinds of books
again. I feel like when you've had too much of a food you don't like for
a long time so that where you tolerated it for awhile, now it makes you
want to just leave the table. If some of the Openbook formatted books are
still there in September, I will validate them. I don't really like this
burned out feeling and wish I felt more like doing the work because these
submitter's cared enough to scan these books. Maybe others are feeling
this way too, or maybe I'm the only one. That's where I am and how I see
things though.
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!" Will Rogers
Monica Willyard, rhyami@xxxxxxxxx
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