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 To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/28/2004 09:57 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux 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