[bookshare-discuss] Re: Am I the inferior validator?
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:55:00 -0700 (PDT)
No, Allison, have no fear. What you're doing is fine.
Completeness, i.e., no missing pages, is the most
important, as well as the copyright info. ewven the
ISBN number isn't all that important,apparently -- and
most older books don't have one. But some of us have
more time to give than others, and some of us are more
persnickety than others, and so we do more. There are
a number of books in the collection that are only
Fair, and people have had trouble reading them, and
there have been complaints that some books rated Good
aren't really very good and are difficult to read, and
even have been missing pages.
But not to worry. Do the best you can and have time
for. You say you check to make sure all the pages are
there and correct some errors -- presumably do a quick
spell-check, and that's all that's required -- even,
if you do the spell-check,more than is required. If
someone downloads a book you've validated and they
find it difficult to read they can always fix it more
to their liking and submit it as a replacement.
Cindy
-- Allison <alwaysallie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Well, this discussion on file formats and validating
> has kind of perplexed me. Text verses doc or
> rtf.... spacing, line markings, pagenation, break
> insertion, does everyone check this stuff? I have
> validated a number of books and I have never been
> that particular. Should I be? Are there more
> specific guidelines that we have agreed to follow
> which I don't know about? Do we have a list of
> these somewhere? I check the title, author, isbn
> info, whether the book is a duplicate, etc. Then I
> check to make sure the book is readable, correct
> some errors, and make sure the book is complete. I
> have never in my life checked any of the spacing or
> formatting that closely. If I need to, that'd be
> great to know. And, the books I've validated before
> have ended up on the site, and far as I know no one
> has minded 'em.
>
> I realise we are going for quality not quantity
> here, but there is a limit. Bookshare exists for
> the most part due to the work of a group of
> volunteers, and we don't want to scare away
> potential scanners or validators by nit-picking like
> this.
>
> Sure, some of us may like to work with this much
> detail, but many others have busy lives and do this
> work because we care about Bookshare and want to see
> the collection of accessible books increase. We
> don't care that the format is flawless, we just
> wanna read our books!
>
> So, what I guess I'm saying is, can we reestablish
> some standards here on validation quality? I've
> been a member and a volunteer for a while, and I'm
> confused, if I were a newby, I'd be completely
> overwhelmed. How picky do we wanna be with these
> books? If we do want to be more so than we are, can
> we
>
>
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