[bksvol-discuss] Re: Improving excellent books
- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:45:52 -0500
I always correct the errors like obvious words which are suppose to be
something else, or the single quote for apostrophe, etc. it's those where
whole lines are gibberish, missing words or sequential words are not there
at the ends of pages, where problems or I just have to "reject" the book
because it cannot be improved more by trying to fill in words by the
context. I am not the author, so to pretend I am by filling in phrases where
the author might mean something else just isn't right. Sure, I may be right
more often than I am wrong, and I am not going to reject a book for a single
line of gibberish, and I'll write to the originator of the book and ask
"what is this line on page xx which says, (copy and paste), toward the
bottom of the page and even show the before and after text. When the
originator says they've already off-loaded the book and have it no more,
then what do I do? :)
Curtis Delzer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Devorah Greenstein" <DGreenstein@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:21 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Improving excellent books
Bob,
I think that's a great idea. When I validate I really try hard to get
perfect but I always have a gut feeling that, despite my looking at
every capital I, there are still going to be a few number ones lurking
still uncorrected.
I really like your idea, of having a process to incorporate minor
improvements so the library.
Devorah
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:02 AM
To: bookshare volunteer discussion
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Improving excellent books
Lately when I've downloaded books that are rated excellent, I find that,
in
general, they really are excellent. However, they may have an occasional
1
for I or misspelled words that you know are scanning errors.
Now, these books are fine as they are--we've all learned to correct
those
little errors in our heads and to go on reading.
But, they could be improved. I was wondering if we could somehow
resubmit a
book with minor changes without having to go through the whole process
of
putting it on step 1 as a "bso" book, having someone else validate it,
and
have a staff approve it. That seems very inefficient, and a waste of
time
just for a few errors.
But, if a method could be developed to include these minor improvements,
then the library could always be increasing in quality.
I don't think this effort would even merit credits. It's just a way to
improve an already excellent collection.
What do you think?
Bookshare staff, does this idea have a chance?
Bob
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the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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