[bksvol-discuss] Re: books I validated today
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:23:46 -0800 (PST)
Jill,
A lot of us are like you and only take books we are
willing to read or that sound interesting. I've taken
a couple that didn't turn out to be so interesting; in
the case of one fiction book, I ended up getting
involved anyway, and after basically skimming the
pages and spell-checking to start, I got engrossed in
the story and went back and read it more carefully. My
skimming had caught most of the errors, though.
There were two books, though, that I just couldn't
read word for word, but I did skim each page and do a
spell-check. They were long and scholarly, both in
content and in style. Other nonfiction books I have
read carefully, but they've been written in a more
interesting way and without a lot of jargon.
Cindy
Cindy
--- Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A lot of you probably won't agree with me and that's
> your privilege, but I
> don't happen to feel committed to try to get every
> book on step 1 into the
> collection. I consider that quality far outweighs
> quantity which is why I
> validate what I am willing to read. I have seen too
> many books rated good
> which were not pleasant to read and I then start
> figuring how I can find the
> time to rescan them and make them the quality that
> Bookshare can be proud
> of. I know this is not required of validators, but
> it is the standard I set
> for myself, and you are right, I have often spent
> far more than five hours
> validating such a book which I could easily have let
> go through as good or
> fair. I do wonder too if good or fair books come
> across better when listened
> to as opposed to being read in braille which is the
> way I read them; maybe
> that's why such books bother me as much as they do.
> Jill
>
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