[bksvol-discuss] Re: comments on poor quality books
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:10:27 -0700 (PDT)
I don't recall submitting any books by Brian Jacques. You sure I'm the culprit?
Carrie
"E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is probably a mistake on the part of the automator in this case. She is
using in house bookshare equipment and her scans are great. That is what
surprised me.
E.
At 11:44 AM 6/29/2006, you wrote:
>I don't understand why volunteers have a problem rejecting such books; in
>my opinion this is far better than ending up sending them on for
>administrative approval with a good or fair rating.
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>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] comments on poor quality books
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>>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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