[bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:04:47 -0800
Thanks, Evan!
[Alisa, this is an excellent example of how this discussion list functions
at its best. Someone like Evan, who has lots of experience, answers
questions posted urgently by volunteers. Sometimes follow-up answers add
detail. Very infrequently is the answer inaccurate. Mayrie steps in to
answer the tough ones! Only Benetech staff are cleared to speak
authoritatively on matters of policy - a practice that is now well-honred
by this group.]
Scott
On 12/9/11 11:01 AM, "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>If the book is already in the collection, and you believe the copy you
>scanned is superior in quality, then you would submit your copy as a BSO,
>(Better Scan Of), which would replace the original. If your book is not
>already in the collection, then when you made the corrections that were
>requested, you would resubmit it in the same manner as you submitted it
>the
>first time, without the BSO code in the title. So in either case, there
>would be no duplicate book. Since your book was rejected based on the
>issues
>you mentioned, it is safe to assume that there is no copy in the
>collection,
>or your book would have been rejected on that basis. So once you are
>satisfied that you've done the corrections, just submit the book exactly
>as
>you did before.
>
>Evan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kelly Pierce" <kkellyp@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:32 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help
>
>
>> Dear Bookshare volunteers,
>>
>> Greetings from Chicago! I have been a member of Bookshare shortly
>> after it got started and submitted some of my book scans then. I
>> stopped submitting books a couple years later. I recently began
>> submitting the books I have scanned for myself over the years and
>> discovered things seemed to have changed significantly with much
>> higher expectations of the scanned books.
>>
>> I appreciate greatly this emphasis on creating a quality experience
>> for Bookshare readers. Folks recognize that for information to be
>> useful it needs to be complete and accurate. I have been reading many
>> Bookshare books lately and am much pleased to find consistent accuracy
>> and quality of the accessible text. I have withdrawn my support from
>> Learning Ally because of the organization¹s inattentiveness to
>> quality; the vast bulk of amateur podcasts have higher production
>> standards than their books.
>>
>> I recently received a message saying a book I submitted was rejected.
>> I was asked to correct garbage text and format tables properly. I
>> also changed many fractions from using the letter l to the number one.
>> This is a cookbook.
>>
>> The e-mail encouraged me to resubmit the book when the issues were
>> corrected. However, it didn¹t say how to do this. Please help me
>> know what to do in this situation. When I went to upload the book
>> again, there was a warning saying that duplicate books should not be
>> submitted. Yet, there is a code for a better-scanned copy.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I cannot claim I scanned this book again. It is a
>> corrected copy. The parts with colored text would likely yield the
>> same garbage characters if scanned again. It seems silly that
>> Bookshare only wants re-scanned books rather than corrected books. If
>> a book has many fewer errors than before, why is it important for
>> Bookshare on how this higher quality performance was achieved?
>>
>> I replied to the message, which came from support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, with
>> some questions and attached the corrected copy of the book. I also
>> sent the message to volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx as instructed in the
>> message. I have not heard back and I am not sure what to do about
>> this book or when other books might be rejected in the future. Please
>> provide support and advice.
>>
>> Also, I am currently using OpenBook 6 to scan books. Do folks believe
>> this version produces inferior scanning results for today¹s Bookshare
>> expectations compared to the current shipping version of this product?
>>
>> Kelly
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