In that case, BS will pay $5 in toto for the book after someone does a clean scan, not to mention the time spent going through the validation process twice. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: newbie question > Hi Rachael, > You've just asked a tough question. If the problems you describe were very occasional, bordering on rare, I would probably do what you did. Its one of those tough calls where you balance the length of the book and > the over all quality against those occasional gaps or garbled lines. I'm sure there are some on the list who would nuke such a book, and can understand that reaction. I really wish there would be a place where > comments that spoke to the reasons for a given rating could be included for perspective downloaders of an item to see before they download. So if somebody who just really doesn't want to deal with that sort of error > would see the comments, they could avoid the book. In addition, if we could release such books but with comments that could be seen by a perspective future validator, then perhaps somebody who could gget > access to the book and fix up the problem areas would be attracted to that book and could do a more complete job than one can do without access to the book. . > Mary > > > >