[bksvol-discuss] Re: comments about step 1 books

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:26 -0700 (PDT)

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
> 
> 
> 
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