[bksvol-discuss] Re: where are all the submits
- From: "Reggie & Brooks" <regandlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:37:57 -0400
Curiously everyone, although I have another book with a hold so don't worry,
how does just about every book get a hold for? I think we as volunteers are
only supposed to have 2 holds, but like E. I wonder how we have gotten down
to only being able to validate books on alcoholism and philosophy. Not a
problem at the moment, but once I get through the books I have? How does a
book get a hold? Do they all go through Pavi?
Reggie
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I am not personally interested in proofing books about alcohol and substance
abuse or group psychology or books about naval warfare at this time.
That does cut down on my choices quite a lot.
E.
At 03:05 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Elizabeth and others. If you look at the Books In Processing list,
>you'll see that there are around 160 books checked out for
>proofreading. Many of those are fiction, and that leads me to believe
>that we have an active community of proofreaders who work on books very
>shortly after they are submitted. I think what's going on is that we
>have shifted in our balance so that we have more proofreaders than
>submitters. I also think submitters are doing more careful proofreading
>on our submits, so we're putting up fewer books, but the books can also be
proofread more quickly by the proofreader.
>Another factor that may be slowing down the flow of new books is that
>some of our volunteers who are not on this list haven't learned how to
>submit books on the new site yet. Finally, another factor is that
>several of our more prolific submitters are now working for Bookshare.
>All of these factors seem to have changed the balance for us.
>
>For several years, the mantra was that submitters needed to stop
>scanning and help with proofreading. We started doing that, and several
>of us tried to switch hit to play both roles. Now the word needs to get
>out that submitters can safely go back to submitting books. I dislike
>working as a proofreader with a passion, but it's taking me awhile to
>get back into submitting mode because I have three books I have to finish
proofreading.
>Then I plan to quit and go back to scanning and cleaning up my own
>books so I can submit them.
>
>There is still plenty of important and honorable work for proofreaders
>to do right now. There were 111 books awaiting proofreading when I
>looked at the list. Some of the nonfiction books awaiting approval are
>short, and it would be cool if some of our proofreaders would be
>willing to take on just one of them. You can see the page count on a
>book before checking it out, and that makes it easy to find shorter
>ones. No one has to do them, and I think it's a good thing to work on
>books that interest us when those are available to us. On the other
>hand, the nonfiction books do have to be processed, either approved or
>rejected, by someone from the volunteers or staff. I have two nonfiction
books checked out right now because I want to do my part.
>
>To me, working on books that interest me is like enjoying flowers and
>fresh produce from a garden. I'd rather do that all the time.
>Processing some types of nonfiction books is more work, like pulling
>weeds or plowing and preparing soil. It's not as much fun, but it needs
>to be done to make the Bookshare system work well for everyone. If
>those who are willing would take just one book from the check out list,
>we could get those books approved and go back to doing things that we
>find more exciting. For me, that's scanning books. For someone else,
>that may be proofreading science fiction or mysteries.
>
>Monica Willyard
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