Evan, Despite my suggestion from this morning, I hardly ever selfvalidate my submissions. And, I've been volunteering for Bookshare ever since the organization started. I usually feel that having someone else look at the submission gives it a nice check. Pratik Pratik Patel Director, CUNY Assistive technology Services (CATS) The City University of New York pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Hovas Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:35 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: That Wretched Apostrophe Evan, You're not mistaken. Bookshare does prefer that someone else validate the book, but it's not a requirement. Some volunteers hav enough experience at validating and are so thorough that even another experienced validator won't find enough to make it worth someone's time to go back over a submission. If someone is a new volunteer , though, I highly recommend that they don't validate their own submissions since as most of us have learned, the more you learn about volunteering, the more there seems to be to learn. Because of this, self-validators should be the exception, not the norm. HTH Gerald _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 7:53 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: That Wretched Apostrophe As I understand things, you can take the book and "really" validate it. You don't have to self-validate and then release it for someone else to REALLY validate. When you do validate it, you can correct the title at that time. According to the validation instructions I have, Bookshare encourages you to let someone else validate what you submit, but if you know the book is complete and that the copyright information is correct, then you can validate it yourself if you want to. If I am mistaken about any of this, I'm sure that more experienced people here will point it out in short order, so that you do the right thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: Monica <mailto:MCortada@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cortada To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 5:34 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] That Wretched Apostrophe I left the apostrophe out of the title. If I take it to self-validate, can I send it back to the first page for someone else to really validate? If that won't work, could I take it to self-validate, release it and then resubmit it corrected? Monica