[bksvol-discuss] Re: books on step 1 ten months old or older
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:31:24 -0700 (PDT)
I think you're a saint. I'll take nonfiction that I
think from the titles I'll enjoy, but I'm not generous
enough to tackle something I'm not interested in. Of
course once I've taken a book and found out it's dryer
or more tedious than I expected, I do finish it, but
not with my usual word-for-word reading. I'll make
sure all the pages and numbers are there and correct
scannos that spell-check catch, but that's about it.
That only happened with two books, though. Others that
I didn't think I'd like but took because I was asked
proved unexpectedly interesting, or tolerable, and I
did do them with care.
I've now gotten to the point in my life where I no
longer feel I must finish reading a book that I've
started if I'm not enjoying it. There are too many
books I want to read and too little time left, even if
I live to be a hundred. smile
Cindy
I have found
--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi, Cindy. I think we have an active validating
> community because
> >of what I see in the admin queue. Of course, we
> always do need more
> >validaters. I think, in the case of these older
> books, that they
> >haven't been validated due to format and subject
> matter. I can only
> >share where I am in validating at the moment. I
> have validated 16
> >books in the past month, and I have scanned 7 books
> while
> >validating. I used to agonize over fixing up the
> more obscure books
> >and textbooks because I wanted people to get their
> credit for
> >scanning. I'm burned out on those books and
> promised myself a
> >summer vacation of only working on books that I
> genuinely want to
> >read. I still care about submitter's getting their
> credit, but I
> >just can't stand
> to read a lot of serious nonfiction right now. I'm
> hoping that
> taking the summer off will help me feel more like
> working on these
> kinds of books again. I feel like when you've had
> too much of a food
> you don't like for a long time so that where you
> tolerated it for
> awhile, now it makes you want to just leave the
> table. If some of
> the Openbook formatted books are still there in
> September, I will
> validate them. I don't really like this burned out
> feeling and wish
> I felt more like doing the work because these
> submitter's cared
> enough to scan these books. Maybe others are
> feeling this way too,
> or maybe I'm the only one. That's where I am and
> how I see things though.
>
>
> "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!" Will
> Rogers
> Monica Willyard, rhyami@xxxxxxxxx
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