[bksvol-discuss] Re: books I validated today
- From: "Sharon" <mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:03:56 -0500
If that book Feeling Good is the David Burns book you mentioned, I
understand how difficult it was to scan. I started to do so, but gave up on
the book, even though I wanted my own text copy. It just would have taken me
many many many hours, hours I do not have. I've been working on a book for
several years now called Living by the Book which is a text on Bible study
methods, and the best one I've ever read. RFB&D has it also. Many of the
pages have handwriting on them, and the figures are difficult to describe.
Pages or several colors, so if you do an optimize scan for one type page,
it's horid with another type page, and the colors keep changing. I've spent
hundreds and hundreds of hours on this book, and may hire someone with sight
to finish it, since I want it in the collection very badly. There is a time
when you have spent so much time on a book that you cannot bare it for the
book not to make it in.
Sharon
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Estelnalissi
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:32 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books I validated today
Dear Jill and Fellow Booksharians,
Like Gene, and Sue, I Thank you for taking the time to speak up on behalf of
excellence, Jill. Many of us are blind readers, but we are not second class
or low end readers. Why would we be content to navigate through a difficult,
rocky read when sighted readers expect and get clean,accurate, and carefully
edited and printed books.
As a lover of reading, writing, and one who appreciates and cares about the
author's perspective, I imagine how shocked an author would be to see a
shabby presentation of his or her work on Bookshare. We dishonor the author,
the publishing industry and the gift of copyright permission when our
presentation of books are riddled with errors.
Last night I downloaded a book by David "Burns. It is rated good, but is
full of broken words, junk characters, and words that are so off kilter as
to be unrecognizable. Nls has a high quality recording of this book but I
had hoped to read Bookshare's copy in braille. I want so much to buy the
book, send it to one of the many volunteers who scan with care, and then to
validate it myself, even if it should take me weeks, so I'll know the next
reader can concentrate on what the author is saying without being distracted
by a stream of assorted errors.
A fellow volunteer kindly reminded me of the validating promises I've made
and the books I'm tidying up in my slow but sure style. Tomorrow I'll call
NLS and read Burns' book on tape. I'll remove the Bookshare copy from my
flash card, and then be hard pressed not to dwell on the fact that the next
reader may be as disappointed with the Mood Therapy book as I was.
We can spare the volunteers and staff the work of processing books twice,
and readers from being frustrated with and discarding their downloads by
submitting and uploading books we are confident are as excellent as we can
make them. Disappointed readers aren't comforted by being told the
volunteers did the minimum required of them.
I don't volunteer to do what I "Have" to do. I volunteer because I
thoroughly enjoy a job where I can read and create a beautiful book at the
same time, a book I'm proud to share with fellow readers and which I'm not
embarrassed to show to the author.
Always with love, and Fervor, tonight,
Lissi
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From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books I validated today
>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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