[bksvol-discuss] Re: yes, let's get tough.

  • From: "Jim" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:00:30 -0700

Laurie, I am talking about both validaters and scanners as well. If you look at 
what I said, I said, scanners shouldn't put up books on the web site unless 
they know they are as good as they can make them. Poor with many errors isn't 
good under any circumstances. 
Likewise, a validater should do the best job they can, and most of us are doing 
just that.. It is the badly scanned books I am concerned about, and why they 
end up on step one when they were poorly scanned from the get go.
Jim Rawls
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lori Castner 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 2:31 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: yes, let's get tough.


  I don't get it; why do you think validators should get tougher because they 
are now being paid more?  Don't mean to be dense, but don't get it.

  Cat Lover Lori

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jim 
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:28 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] yes, let's get tough.


    Hi listers,
    Since bookshare has seen fit to raise credit for validators, we should get 
tough.
    I was just up on the step one page, and the first two books I looked at, 
were shown to be fair with many errors. 
    My suggestion is this. If you know a book is fair with many errors, why are 
you submitting it at all? If I get a book like that, chances are, I'm likely to 
reject it. If you can't check your scans, clean them up and make them good, 
then don't do it. Sure, I have submitted books that weren't good, and I had to 
learn a lot of things, and I understand that. When you first start out you mess 
up. I understand that, but come on, some of these books weren't submitted by 
new folks just learning. We all have to do the best scans we can, it is up to 
us, and no one else.
    Jim Rawls

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