[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux

Forgive me, but mis-spending isn't just not serving people, it's actually 
disserving people.  It gives fewer books for the time involved, encourages 
people to avoid BookShare, and might well prompt schools to look ascance when 
students, for example, say that they can get such-and-such a title here.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Guido Corona 
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  Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:59 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux



  No Kelly,  I am not assuming that a bad book is immediately or even 
eventually rescanned.  I only wish that people's time is used effectively. 
  As I already said,  you can spend an inordinate amount of time fixing a bad 
book,  or spend the same time working on 4 good or excellent submissions.  Are 
you really serving your customers by working for a long time on a single book? 

  GUido 



  Guido Dante Corona
  IBM Accessibility Center,  Austin Tx.
  Research Division,
  Phone:  512. 838. 9735.
  Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
  Web:  http://www.ibm.com/able



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  Guido,
  You're still assuming that someone has access to all these books and can
  provide a better scan. If I had a choice between spending twenty hours
  fixing a scrambled scan or being given a copy of the book and asked to
  rescan it, of course I would rather scan. But usually the choice is fix up
  the book, or reject it and not have it at all. Of course I know that a
  volunteer in this position can mention the problem on list and someone might
  go find the book and rescan, and/or they can ask Rui to add the book to the
  list with hopefully the same outcome.

  As for me, I validate things I want to read. Self-interest to be sure,
  although not credit-based. I actually like reading a book and fixing the
  errors as I go along, and I take pride in the fact that when I upload the
  book it will be as close to perfect as I can make it. Of course, it's a real
  pleasure to have a scan that's so good I don't have to do much or any
  correcting. And if the submitter says that they've already read the book
  through I wouldn't necessarily read the whole thing before uploading.
  And my point is... hm, I thought I had one... Oh, never mind!
  Kellie

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