I have no problems reading romances. But a book that takes 9 months to fix,
would take only 30-40 minutes to scan and only a few hours, a handful at
most, to fix. Let me know what they are and I'll be happy to run through
them. If you'd rather I didn't, that's no problem.
If I did do them, I'd ask you to do a small amount of clean-up, such as
end-of-page hyphens and headers.
Let me know soon as I'll be heading to the bookstore later today.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:34 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books again and again
-- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As I understand the situation, it seems as if someone who wanted could rescan these books more quickly than they have been validated, and yet, as they are being validated, nobody can do a fresh scan. Is that accurate?
No and Yes. Not seeing a book on the download list, on Marissa's list, or in the collection, a person could scan the book, it would go on the download for validation list, and be validated and put into the collection. Indeed, one of the books I had is now in the collection but in Fair, many errors throughout; another one I had also saw in the collection when I checked recently --I can't remember which one, though.
You're probably right that someone who wanted could rescan the books and if they did it carefully and pre-validated it so that someone who took it for validation could validate it quickly it would get into the collection faster than by my (or anyone) holding on to it. But that makes the assumption that someone wants to or is willing to re-scan it and can obtain the book. The books I have, and there are only 6 of them now, were on the list for between 9 months and a year and had been released many times, so I don't think anyone is missing them --but I do think they are worthwhile additions to the collection, and if I happen to enjoy reading the books, I'll fix them. If not, I'll reject them -- and I think, following E's example, if that happens I will post that I'm rejecting it so that if anyone wants to they can rescan it.
In the meantime, when there are more current books or requests, like some of the Caldecott books, and some other books I've been asked to help with, I do those first--and keep renewing the others.
They're txt romances, with a quality rating of Fair. If you'd like to try one, Gary, I'd be happy to release it (smile). They're by pretty reputable authors, by the way--not just Harlequin romances.
Cindy
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