Susan and Sharon, I'm glad you brought this up. When I'm validating, I don't see headers as a big deal since removing them doesn't take that long. I know we're all busy, and I don't expect anyone to be perfect. I don't think people who scan books but leave headers intact are a problem at all. The books I'm referring to have multiple pages of random characters in them. Even a very basic run through something like a spellchecker or a tool like rank spelling would show that there are major problems. That's how I know that these people make no effort at all to either read or check out the quality of their scan. If they actually started reading them, they wouldn't be able to follow the plot any better than I could. One book I have now has several pages of lines that look like this.
I olvd7 the aivterb anc ^^elne 6pvbrl?\Anyone have a clue what that sentence means? This random garbage goes on for six pages before I see another recognizable English phrase. So a book with headers would seem pleasantly neat at the moment. (grin)
Monica Willyard Susan Lumpkin wrote:
If yur time is limited, Sharon, leave the headers there.Susan-----Original Message----- From: "Sharon"<mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx> I agree with all of this, with one possible addition. My time is very very limited, and I don't have much time to either scan or validate, but I have a ton of books to scan. In the limited time available, I'd rather scan more books for people to validate, than I would taking off headers, and even reading the book. But for goodness sake, I'd do a ranked spelling, unless the book was full of Greek and Hebrew, and try to get rid of obvious errors. Sharon
