Sarah, I'm grateful to you for validating the nonfiction, Fair or otherwise--and to E, too. There are more of us willing to take the fiction, and I'm glad some of you are willing to take the nonfiction. smile. I do like some nonfiction if it's interestingly written. Cindy --- "Sarah J. Blake" <sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > E, sometimes books that I hold for a while because > I've been working on them > get knocked out of my queue because I happen to be > gone during my renewal > days, and in time I have to go pick them up again. > These are marked as > released whether I intentionally released them or > not. Just some info worth > having... > > Also fyi, I hate validating fiction and won't do it > unless the synopsis > really captures my attention because it tends to > scan badly in my > experience. I will pick up lots of fair nonfiction > and spend hours and hours > cleaning it up so that it's good or even excellent, > which is why I hold > books for so long. But I won't do it for fiction > because the reasons for the > fair ratings are entirely different and it's very > difficult to fix. Fair > nonfiction tends to be fair because of difficult > fonts and errors in the > middles of words that I can interpret. Fair fiction > tends to be fair because > of missing words at the ends and beginnings of > lines. It's impossible to fix > these without getting the books and re-scanning, and > if I have to do that > then I believe the scanner should re-scan the book. > > Sarah J. Blake > Personal mail to: > sjblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.