Hi Katie and Monica,
I have to agree to an extent. After all, the download list is more than
400 again, someone needs to make a decision about some of these books. I've
seen some books just constantly being given up on (from the comment
history), and I'm thinking, well if there's problems, then somebody just
needs to reject the darn thing.
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katie Star" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: rejected "Flash Flood" by Diann Mills
Hello Monica,
I have to agree with you. I truly understand there are those who will take
the extra time to work on tuff books and make them all they can be but I
have heard comments where when a validator is well within the guidelines get
somewhat negative feedback for following the guidelines. I know my standards
for scanning and validating have increased but still my early books did fall
in the stated guidelines.
Validating and scanning are like any skill. IF we had to be perfectionist the first time we jumped in how many of us would have stayed.
Katie Hill Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to
what we know of Nature.
-St. Augustine
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:40 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: rejected "Flash Flood" by Diann Mills
Elizabeth, I appreciate your willingness to rescue poorly scanned books. However, I do think that it is the responsibility of the submitter to insert some page breaks into their books and to do a basic spellcheck. Not all validaters are willing to do the painstaking work of reconstructing a book, and Dan was well within his right as a validater to reject a book of poor quality and that lacks page breaks. I see a lot of people on this list who are scolded for following the rules and rejecting books according to Bookshare's stated policies. I agree that there are times when discussing a possible rejection with the list can be helpful. Something about posts like this comes across to me as second-guessing decisions made by a validater and that has the potential to undermine his/her confidence. I no longer post about the books I reject to this list because of responses like this one. I update Jake's list, and that is as far as I'm willing to go with posting on this issue. I'm willing to look at my reaction to your post, and maybe I'm just having a rough week and am over-reacting to it. I want to be fair to you, and yet something about this issue gets under my skin. Thanks for listening to me try to sort this all out.
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On Wednesday 6/7/2006 05:32 PM, you wrote:Please, if you find a book like that with a lot of scano typing errors, put it back on step 1. A lot of correcting can be done on just those kinds of errors with k1000. You may want to talk about your reasons for rejecting a book on this list before actually rejecting it. Then, you may find you can release certain books for others to work on who have access to tools you may not have.
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