[bksvol-discuss] Re: happy Holidays and a couple of questions
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:14:59 -0500
And if you reject the book, email this list, so someone can add it to the
Books Rejected list, in case someone wants to scan it later.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
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Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
Puppies are the joy at one end.
Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
Carolyn Alexander
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From: "Monica Willyard" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 1:49 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: happy Holidays and a couple of questions
Hi, Scott. Welcome to volunteering. I'm so glad you've joined
us. (smile) In general, doing a rank spelling with Kurzweil can
give you an idea of the condition of a scan. If it is below 97
percent, the book will need either a lot of attention or has some
sort of problem that might warrant rejection. I often suggest to
new volunteers that they might prefer to work on an easy book for
their first couple of validations so they can focus on learning how
to validate. Books like the one you're describing can be a
challenge, even to an experienced validater. I would recommend that
you look on the step 1 page for books submitted by Carrie Karnos,
Jake Brownell, Mayrie ReNae, or Shelley Rhodes. We have many awesome
submitters around here. These are just a few people who submit scans
that are clean and easy to validate.
If you see a lot of garbled text throughout the book, text that you
can't make out, it's probably a candidate for rejection. However,
the absence of maps or pictures is normal with books for
Bookshare. If your book has missing pages, you can either post here
to ask if someone can scan in the missing pages, or you can reject
the book due to missing pages. Books are also generally rejected if
there are a lot of lines with missing characters at the beginning or
end of the line. Two things that can be fixed with books are headers
at the top of pages and, in cases where page numbers are present,
missing page breaks. When it comes right down to it, each volunteer
has to make up his or her own mind about the rejection process based
on what is found while reading the book. I hope this helps you a
bit. Merry Christmas.
Monica Willyard
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