[bksvol-discuss] Re: comments on poor quality books
- From: socly@xxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:53:24 -0500
Mickey,
After reading your and Jake's posts, I suggest that before you release a book
that's hard to fix post here, or write to someone like me offlist, to see if
there's someone willing to fix it or to agree to rescan it. If there isn't,
then you can feel comfortable in rejecting it. If there is someone who would
like to validate in the absence of anyone who is willing to rescan, then you
can release it and that person can take it. Then it won't just sit on the
download list or be continually downloaded and released by others. smile
Cindy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: comments on poor quality books
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:29:33 -0400
>
>
> I usually try hard to fix bad scans, thinking that the book will be
> of worth to someone. I'm from the 40s and 50s, when having a book
> was such a wonderful privilege that I'd work hard to understand. I
> try to fix, then often will send the book back to step 1, knowing
> that there are people who have more knowledge and patience than I.
> So, either and neither way is correct.
>
> Mickey
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:16 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: comments on poor quality books
>
>
> > I will reject anything which has a rank spelling of 94 to 96
> > percent minus capitalized words. Brian Jacques books have been
> > mostly rejected from the list by me for now. The shame is I have
> > no idea who the submitter is (a bookshare volunteer) who did such
> > a poor submission. Somebody needs to fix ttheir scanning
> > settings. Just awful scans.
> >
> > E.
> > At 03:47 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Elizabeth,
> >> Keeping in mind the strange names this authors uses, if books
> >> are this terrible, why anyone would want to even attempt to fix
> >> them up is beyond me.
> >>
> >> This goes back to my previous message, volunteers need to not be
> >> squeamish and take the easy way and release rather than reject.
> >>
> >> From what it sounds like, I hope you rejected them.
> >>
> >> Jake
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:39 AM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] comments on poor quality books
> >>
> >>
> >>> Several books by the author Brian Jacques have recently been
> >>> submitted to step 1. I am going to use these books as a
> >>> example of the kind of thing which keeps the step 1 list
> >>> clogged and generally slows down things. The books I
> >>> downloaded had a rating of between 94 and 97 percent accuracy
> >>> with capitalization turned off. That is a pretty poor rating
> >>> and deserves a re-scan. The comment I want to make is about
> >>> the history of these books. Each had been downloaded from step
> >>> 1 at least three times by various volunteers, held for a couple
> >>> of weeks each and then released back to step 1. Folks, books
> >>> of this quality either need to be rejected immediately or need
> >>> a volunteer willing to do lots and lots and lots of work to fix
> >>> up these scans in which case the volunteer ought to hold on to
> >>> the book and dilligently fix it up, not release such a poor
> >>> quality book back to step 1. This is a personal opinion.
> >>>
> >>> E.
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