Then, if they're so uninterested, save all of us reading these thread, save
the volunteers the time wasted on an incompetent job, and save the readers
the agony of hope to find a title to be followed by sadness when it turns
out that the book is a botched job.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:47 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux
Guido
You are also assuming, and I would suggest erroneously, that the submitter cares in all cases whether their books is accepted or rejected. Some folks submit their scans as a courtesy to allow others the benefit of what they've done for themselves. Hence, by just rejected their work, you convey no msg other than BookShare doesn't want it. Hence, you are not going to improve their efforts as their initial intention wasn't a BookShare submission but to read it for themselves. If they consider the book readable for themselves, that is all that matters to them in this instance.
While I wholeheartedly agree that better quality books are desirable over worse scanned ones, I also recognize the philosophy upon which BookShare is based. I also recognize that something else is at play: BookShare, due to its success and growth, is perhaps bursting at its ability to process received submissions and needs, therefore, to figure out a means of making the workload managable. While I do personally nuke books that are of such poor quality making reading difficult or impossible, I also accept the notion that I also rather have a poorer quality book than none at all. And in many cases, nuking a book won't be having it rescanned but gone forever.