[bookshare-discuss] Re: Am I the inferior validator?
- From: "J.M." <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:36:16 -0700
Hi, Allison. I think what you're doing is fine. I don't bother with the
formatting. I can't see what the pages look like, anyway, so I don't bother.
If all the pages are there, it's a complete book and I can read it, I
approve it, and that's all I do. I don't worry about all the other stuff
because it's just more than I can do. JAWS isn't going to tell me all that
formatting stuff unless I go character by character sometimes, anyway, and
I'm not going to do that. I don't validate in braille because I don't have a
braille display and my Braille Lite won't take RTF files, which is what I
take most of the time. I do what I can with what I have. Take care.
Julie Morales
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your heart.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison" <alwaysallie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 6:30 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Am I the inferior validator?
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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