[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 00:38:48 -0400
Dear Pavi,
The only reason I named a specific outsourcer was because it happened to be the
one which processed the particular book we were reading and the one Bob wrote
about. I'm sure it's harder for all of them to be meticulous when time is a
factor. Volunteers have the luxury of taking all the time they want, but having
worked most of my life I realize the necessity of certain productivity quantity
standards. We are fortunate that Bookshare has a procedure in place allowing us
to make or request corrections in books. Print books you buy which invariably
contain a few misplaced letters or missing words don't have that wonderful
option of being correctable.
In my own case, I was pleased that a Bookshare reader was willing and able to
correct the confusion caused by the smart quotes I didn't realize were in a
Junie B. Jones book when I Proofread it. It's a good thing Bookshare has
designed steps for staff and readers to make books as good as they can be.
As to which books qualify for grant support, That's a hair that can be split
infinitesimally. I'm glad to leave those calls up to Bookshare especially since
volunteers are free to fill any gaps they feel are in the collection as they
have always been encouraged to do.
It feels good being informed. Thank you for sharing with volunteers Bookshare's
plan for fulfilling the intent of the grant. That complex responsibility lies
with Bookshare and not with me. Overall the grant is a massive source of new
reading material that benefits all of us.
Always with love,
Lissi
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----- Original Message -----
From: Pavi Mehta
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 4:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
Hi Lissi,
Just wanted to let you know that I've filed a book quality report on "Odds
Against", and it will be looked into by our book quality report processing team
shortly. We welcome such reports from the volunteer community, regardless of
whether it was an outsourcer, a volunteer or a publisher who processed the book.
Warm regards,
Pavi
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Estelnalissi
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 3:47 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
Dear Bob, and Booksharian Friends,
We sympathize.
Ingathering was scanned and proofread by one of Bookshare's out sourcers,
Daproim Africa ,
Evan and I are reading Dick Francis's first Sid Halley novel, Odds Against
which was processed by the same group and it's missing all of the chapter
headings, has a very few scannoes and is missing paragraph breaks where the
lines of dialogue are short. Goes to show that we volunteers, working for free,
when we take care, can produce better quality books than companies being paid.
It also goes to show that protecting chapter heads with our tried and true
formula,
blank line
page number
blank line
chapter name
blank line
text,
still works most reliably. Maybe they should try our method.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob
To: bookshare volunteer discussion
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 6:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Missing story titles
I am currently reading
"Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson".
This is a book of short stories, and, dammit, some of the story titles are
missing.
There's nothing more disparaging than to be reading a story and have
something surrealistic happen only to find out it's a different story.
We had this problem with the old stripper but I thought her younger
daughter had learned better.
Can't engineering fix something as minor as a story title?
Bob (mad as a wet hen)!
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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