That's all that I would say, too. I read the book, do a final spell-check to find anything I might have missed in reading (I suspect that my eyes might actually miss some things that you who can't see wouldn't, especially if I'm interested in the story--and I always do a check for space 1 space to be sure it isn't supposed to be space capital I space, since in some fonts it's hard it to tell), and I do a final page number check. I suppose that isn't important as the text follows logically, but I have found that I've either doubled a page number or omitted it on occasion. Cindy --- On Mon, 11/10/08, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater? > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 9:12 AM > Caitlyn, I love your idea. (smile) That's a great way to > help improve the > quality of our books. I think we have a lot of > highly-skilled validaters > around here who could lend a hand. I will just ask for one > thing to be > included, and it seems almost unnecessarily obvious. > It's the one thing that > a person can do to build a great foundation. Please, please > read the book > all the way through. You can do a lot with a spellchecker > and removing > headers, but reading the book itself is the way you can > catch scannos like > the word car for cat or die for the. It's also how you > can be certain that > all pages are present since scanners don't always > handle page numbers well. > There are literally thousands of books in the collection > that were scanned > pretty well but that needed someone to read through and > remove scannos. I > know Bookshare doesn't require people to read a book > and that the validation > process was different five years ago. Where we are now in > 2008 is a new > landscape for volunteers. Since validaters get the same > amount of credit > submitters do, I think it's fair for validaters to read > the book just as > submitters are required to scan the whole book. > > > > Ok, I've said my piece. I'm going back to my > scanner now. (smile) Now where > did I put my coffee cup? > > > > Monica Willyard 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.