I would like to second the suggestion about letting people upload the work
they've already done on a book they are validating. I have run into this
problem so many times its ridiculous. I like to spend time improving copy
that is less than "excellent" and have always put considerable time into
books I downloaded to validate and I have often gotten stuck when my life
changed unexpectedly and if I could have just uploaded it as is to be
re-validated I could have felt like I had contributed something and the end
result would be better copy. Theoretically I could have done the basic
go-over of a book first so I could just do an "as is" validation job if I
am not able to finish, but it's just not the way I work. If I'm going to
check to see if all the pages are there, I'm going to be more thorough
along the way and check that the pages are in decent shape rather than
having to go through a second time. I've spent half a lifetime trying to
break my perfectionist obsession and with no success, and I'm guessing
there are others out there in the same situation.
Lynn