Hi Tracy, <<Oh, I left out another thing that can stretch time--those bosses of mine! They keep giving me work to do! Don't they realize that they pay me my healthy salary so that I can validate books for BookShare?! And there are only so many hours in a day one can spend at a computer.>> Yeah, what they expect us to work while there? I do keep BookShare projects at work. Lately with my paddling time being later that is what I do after I clock out before heading to the river. Kaitlyn Level III Practitioner Reconnective healing and the Reconnection Level 1 Reiki healing Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Life is an inside job and light and love is everything:) -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:52 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating I want to say that, while 30 days is perfectly reasonable for most books, that's not always the case. I can think of 3 books I have done fairly recently that took a month or more, and I wasn't "poring over every word". They were just very large, and in need of a bit of work. Further, they were not in such bad shape that they deserved rejection, and, had I been that silly, most likely no one would have bothered to rescan them. Quantity is good. Quality is good. In fact, I'm all for it. Quickness of turn-around is also good, but, if I have to choose between quality and quickness, I'll take quality every time. And if my efforts can make a book more readable, without me having to read every word, then I'm all for it and that's what I do. Oh, I left out another thing that can stretch time--those bosses of mine! They keep giving me work to do! Don't they realize that they pay me my healthy salary so that I can validate books for Bookshare?! And there are only so many hours in a day one can spend at a computer. Tracy On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Jake Brownell wrote: > Hi E, > While there are possibly some issues that are indeed more important than > validation time, if we do not attempt to maintain a quick turn around > through the system, then BookShare loses part of its advantage. > The initial message suggested a longer validation time and in response > to that we have moved on to max times of validating. I would support such a > max time provided that in rare cases for practical purposes the time can be > extended. I think though the difficulty lies in finding a way that will > A. not be abused > B. not be granted lightly > and C. that will not take away from already scarce staff resources. > > I too, have seen books that were renewed and renewed to only end up not > being validated. I think that those validators who poor over every word of a > book that is already in great shape is great because the scan will be that > much better, however, I urge them to remember that there are far lesser > quality books that are making their way into the collection that could > really use that type of work. > > One reason I do not do much validating is that without access to Kurzweil > 1000's Rank Spelling it is difficult without reading a majority of a book to > really tell the shape it is in. Hopefully this will change in the future and > I'll do more than just scan, but I still have a couple hundred titles on my > list to scan, so I'll still be busy for a while yet. *grin* > > Jake > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:22 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating > > >> I agree. Sometimes I quickly validate a book. Sometimes it takes longer >> than a week. There are worse issues to be addressed than keeping a book >> out for a few weeks to validate. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.0/50 - Release Date: 7/16/2005 >> >> > > >