[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux

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  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:54:43 -0500

You're just saying that because Kellie said you can be charming. I'm not sure but I think there may be a law or something that says it's naughty to marry more than one person.

Dave

At 11:47 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:

Now about cleaning and cookery, I would never complain. . . . marriage taught me that, at least. . .
but Bookshare volunteers I haven't married. . . yet, that is. . . besides, I love Pratik very much, but only like a brother! As for all the ladies. . . well, you know, I just can't marry everyone of you. . . just not practical.




Guido

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Research Division,
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Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Oh thou high annd mighty one,

This is sent in a spirit of fun just to lighten things up a bit.  I know you
are married because you have told us.  Are you this much of a perfectionist
about your wife's housework and cooking?  <<<<lol>>

Happy New Year!

Sue S.

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mary, quite frankly, I could not care less about the submitter rescanning the bad copy or preferring to sulk themselves onto eternity. This is only a matter of optimal usage of staff and volunteer time, as I explained in my note to Cindy. If anyone finds a hopeless submission of mine, I trust they will have the fortitude to nuke it with the same equanimity that I will experience receiving the rejection note. When I was a programmer I was a firm believer in egoless programming: If I found a bug in anyone's code, I expected it to be fixed. If there were too many bugs, I expected a rewrite. And yes, I demanded the same treatment towards my code, except that, I usually found my own bugs before anyone else did, and fixed them in time.

Guido



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Just some things to ponder before you take the axe to all books with no page breaks, regardless of the quality of their text. A lot of people expressed the idea that they didn't much care about page breaks, that they

could navigate just fine without them, especially if the book in question
was your basic novel, very unlikely to be used as a reference book by
anyone.
There is an assumption that all the books that are rejected are going to
be rescanned. For those of you who like to toss off figures about how
quickly you can scan and prevalidate a book, and who are thus ready to
help reduce the backlog by rejecting the hapless books with no page breaks
in them, does that then mean that you're also going to scan replacement
copies? Or is the assumption that the original submitter will see the
error of his or her ways and rescan and submit those titles including page
breaks this time? I find that to be a very dubious assumption.
Finally, since Marissa said there would be something forthcoming from
BookShare hq on this topic probably by the end of the week, I think it
would be better to wait and see what they have to say before a wholesale
search and destroy operation is begun.
Remember, the last word we had from Marissa regarding this topic, at
least as I recalll, was that page breaks alone were not cause for
rejection; and I believe she also said that one of the members on this
list who had
a lot of older scans that may be missing those page breaks should still
submit them.   So if its ok for them to be submitted, then it would seem
to be not ok to reject based on an absence of page breaks alone.
Mary











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