[bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
- From: "Rui Cabral" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:54:48 -0400
Hi Jana:
Anyone who has "attempted" to read a book with 95% accuracy will tell you
that they shuttered at the thought.
99% and above is reasonable. now of course there are exceptions, lots of
foreign words, slang, etc.
But usually 99% and above is what I shoot for.
-- rui
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
> 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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