[bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:58:33 -0500
Hi, Mike! Depending on how much work you want to do on the book, you could
always attempt to raise the quality a bit by correcting OCR errors as you
encounter them. Right now I'm validating a book that is in fair condition,
and once I'm done, I'll be able to upgrade the quality to good, although
there are still some words missing from the text, as well as a few scannos
that I couldn't figure out. If you use K1000, you can run it through the
ranked spelling feature to see what the percentage is for words spelled
correctly. Jesse says that a book is considered readable with a 95%
accuracy. Most of the volunteers would differ on that. I would say that if
it's 97.5% or higher, you're probably okay. Now that I have K1000, I try to
go for 99% or higher, but I think that's because the perfectionist spirit is
catching up with me. <Smile> Hope this helps!
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 1:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] When to Reject!!
>
> I am now validating a novel on which I have to decide whether the text is
> readable enough or not. The book is all there, I can follow the story,
> but there are a lot of words scrambled and missing. Where does one draw
> the line between accepting it as a fair book or canning it?
> It has been sitting in the pool for a couple of months with no one
> touching it. The book is scanned by a frequent contributor though this
> particular book doesn't come up to what has been done by this individual
> in the past.
>
> I could easily return it to the pool; but this likely would place the book
> in limbo for who knows how long?
>
> So, how poor does fair text have to be to be bad text?
>
>
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