Hi Cindy: Thanks for your reply. The 2 books are navelgazing, the making
of a mother and the other is Home Front. I downloaded them to my computer,
saved them to my compact flash card, unzipped them, and am reading them with
my braillenote. I know they don't all turn out like this, because I just
validated 2 other books, one which was near perfect, and the other,
definitely readable. So I've seen the difference. With these two, you'd
really have to want to read them to plow through it. Patti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 7:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gustavo needs books to approve
I'm going to let someone else answer this, Patti. I'm not a scanner or re-scanner, and my feeling, correct or not, is that most people don't re-scan books from the download list. I think Rui has quite a list of no-book-left-behind books but only Shelley, and maybe Gary, seem to want to re-scan and save them.
I've taken it upon myself to download some of the difficult books to validate, if I can and if the book interests me. Otherwise I reject--but I think I've only rejected a couple, except for the ones I rejected because Gary was willing to re-scan them. And I may end up taking those back.
I would suggest first trying to get in touch with the scanner and/or listing the titles here, in case the scanner is on this list. It's possible that something happened in the submission process or in the translation to brf and that in another format the book is okay, of the submitter can re-submit if his/her file is okay. Second option is to release the book rather than reject it with comments as to what's wrong with it, and also post here.
You can, of course, reject, and perhaps others will tell you to.
Cindy
--- patti <plcdoula@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone: I'm currently validating 2 books. I'm new at this and I don't know just how picky we should be. My first inclination is to reject both of them, because both of them translated in to Braille so poorly, that I can't imagine anyone wanting to read them; but, maybe, I'm just too picky. I figure when whole paragraphs, or halves of pages are virtually unreadable, it should be a reject. What do you experienced folks think? Patti
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 5:23 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gustavo needs books to
approve
> Gentler Gustavo > > Perhaps if you post the seven books here we can help > with the missing information. When there are > rejections, we validators never learn about them and > submitters often don't know why the book is > rejected--or languishing. > > I'll be back shortly. > > Cindy > > > --- Gustavo Galindo <Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> gentlepeople, >> >> >> >> not that you should get out of hand here, but my >> approval queue has just >> 7 lonely books in it. they're languishing until i >> get some answers from >> submitters or validators. >> >> >> >> keep me busy like i know you can. validate books. >> give me something to >> approve. >> >> >> >> while i do have a million other things i need to do, >> approving books is >> by far the most enjoyable of my job >> responsibilities. >> >> >> >> regards, >> >> >> >> gustavo >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > 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. >
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