You still have to evaluate some things on an individuat basis. If there
are a lot of medical or scientific terms then the percentage will be
very low because those words aren't in the spelling dictionary. Also,
if an author has deliberately used bad English or invented words
combined words and such, as a part of the way they have chosen to write
their book, then the percentage is going to be low and it isn't right to
make corrections in those situations. To just discard a book absed on
that percentage isn't a very good idea. Further evaluation must be done
to check for the reson why the percentage might be lower than 99%.
Charlene
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Take this as a personal opinion. I think anything below 98% should be
poor
and 98 to 99 % fair. These are doable percentages with today's
software. Anything with 99% and above can be excellent. But, for
instance, The Abortion Myth was listed as being "excellent" when
submitted. It had a rating of 97.5 and contained 228 single occurances
of
words which I could not figure out. I got it up to 99.5 by the time I
sent
it in for the new books page. That last 5% was made up of the 228
individual one-time occurances of words. I did not reject it outright
since it is not a light reading piece of fiction. If it were, I would
have
rejected.
The real issue here which noone is interested in addressing because it
is
personally messy is that many of these poor scans come from repeat
folks. If bookshare staff does nothing to curb it, we validators are
going
to have to send a stronger message by rejecting books.
At 05:06 AM 9/17/2005, you wrote:
Elizabeth and others
I want your feedback on something. Keeping in mind the caveats
mentioned about ranked spelling, below what threshhold would a book
become fair and below what number would a so-called fair book become
poor and hence rejected?
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