Thank you Cindy!
I am like a hungry person as far as Book Share is concerned. I love the
books and hate to see anything rejected. That is why it is so frustrating to
find so many errors. You are right a rescan would be better. Is there a way
to disallow people who do a poor job from scanning? It eats up peoples time
if they are serious about validating. I for one will not submit a scan until
I ensure it is correct. It would be better for people to submit 1 excellent
scan then 10 fair scans.
Have a nice day.
LOL
Hope
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 1:44 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: validating
Hope,
If I understand you, you're contemplating re-scanning the whole book and nor just a few pages, and if the book is as bad as you say and you think it's a book that should be in the collection and you're willing to do that, that's probably much easier and better to do than to struggle with fixing it.
I agree with Joanie and with part of what Pratik says. It depends on the scanner. Some people scan carelessly and/or hurriedly and don't really care about the condition of the books. They're not about to validate their own scans, either before or after they submit. Others, possibly like Pratik and Shelley, probably Joanie, and E, and others too numerable to mention, probably do validate their own scans before submitting them. The books still go automatically onto the download list, but with Excellent ratings. Those are the books you should validate if you want to be assured of an easy job.
My personal opinion is that if a person's book is on the download list for several weeks and is in good or excellent condition, it's probably because no one but the scanner or a few people are interested in the book or people are already involved in validating other books, and in that case, if the scanner wants to book to be in the collection soon, he/she should valdate it him/herself. The ones that throw up Fair books--who haven't even spell-checked or checked the pagination--aren't likely to validate them even if they were asked to.
Cindy
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