You mean released, not reject? Carrie can download the validated copy of books if you write to her. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 11:43 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: I released a book just now. Is it not acceptable to upload a book with the recommendation of rejection so that the work you have put into it before you decided that you did not like it can be preserved for the validator who takes it over? In a message dated 9/1/2008 9:21:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: Hi Cindy, Oh, it's not the quality of the writing, besides, as a volunteer, we're not supposed to make rejections via those criteria. <smiling> If that were the case, we'd get more rejections than acceptances. I may not like a writer's style, but I can't, at least in my view, reject a book for that reason. I may be wrong, but I came into this job believing it was my work to validate and not to evaluate a book. I released one book because the writer was so bad and the subject was so badly treated that I couldn't stand it. I feel justified in releasing such a book, but not rejecting it. Deciding that a book is "bad" is a subjective evaluation and has no bearing on whether a book is rejected or not. Books can only be rejected if they are of unacceptable quality in their scans, nothing else. Ain't my place to put a value judgment on the book if the physical quality is fine. No, the writing style is fine, strong, bare, and hmmm, it's a guy book. Now, don't go all flukey on me and tell me I'm being sexist. I know I'm being somewhat sexist, but there are guy books and girl books, and whether we like it or not, it's true. This is written in the style of John Sanford or Tom Clancy. No, it's not the writing style, it's the condition of the book. You'd *have* to read every page, if you were going to clean this up. You'd have to run a spell checker. There are chapter headings OK, but the first line of the chapters is often munged. Dunnow why that happens with some books. There are stray I's and J's on some pages. There are some corn words and some other normal scanos that should have been caught by the submitter. It could be edited, but I dunnow if it's worth it. I await your reply. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.portaltutoring.info Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here.