[bksvol-discuss] Re: children's books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:17:25 -0800 (PST)
Wonderful idea, Elizabeth. As you say, the suggestion
has been made before but generally, not in such
practical detail. Maybe Boockshare will take it.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some users read to their children, or to cousins,
> nieces and nephews and so
> forth using our braille displays.
>
> I suggest and have suggested for a while, that it
> might be a good idea to
> increase the credit for validation for a longer
> book. For instance,
> perhaps the credit could be increased to a dollar
> from fifty cents for any
> book of 300 pages or over. This might slow down the
> tendency to approve
> children's books as a validator just because they
> are short
> reads. Similarly, perhaps the fee for submitting
> could be based on a
> sliding sscale, say one dollar for a book a hundred
> pages long, two for
> something two hundred pages long and three dollars
> for three hundred and so
> forth.
>
> This is a slightly more complicated system than what
> is now in use but
> takes account of the time necessary to scan and
> validate longer books.
>
> E.
>
>
>
>
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