[bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
- From: Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:29:20 -0400 (EDT)
Jill
Whether the official time is 1 week or 2 isn't the problem.
Frankly, unless a book were a real treasure, an important or significant
work, or a rare book -- spending 1 week, say nothing of 2, would imply
that everyone would be better off with a rescan.
Part of the problem in extending a 1 week to a 2 week holding time is that
there are people who download, and then never release a book they have
chosen not to validate for whatever reason.
There is nothing wrong with someone grabbing something andthe then
deciding not to validate.
But they ought to have the courtesy of getting the book back in
circulation.
There is a reason that validating earns 20% of the credit of a submission.
And as I have said above, if you have to do that much work to the book, it
may well be something best turned down.
And if you have no time at the oment to validate, then one might best take
a vacation from validating.
The goal is to get books into the hands of users as quickly as possible;
extending validating times defeats that goal and encourages slow
validating.
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