[bookshare-discuss] Re: Fw: Your book has been marked for more editing
- From: "gwen tweedy" <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:09:52 -0500
I agree with you Traci.
I think it should be first come, first serve unless there are extenuating
circumstances such as a corporation or language burrier thing.
But individual books, shouldn't have holds on them at all.
I think once a book is scanned and put up it belongs to Bookshare, there has
been many books I would have helped on series or stuff, but they had holds for
and some hidden, that is how I got into trouble grabbing wrong books.
They need to do away with the hold for altogether to me and let the chips fall
where they may,
some folks might have gotten to do books they enjoyed, instead of doing a book
you don't enjoy simply because there are no choices.
Gwen
----- Original Message -----
From: traci
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 11:35 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Fw: Your book has been marked for more editing
I am so furious right now. I mean, it is probably all my fault but still.
As I understand it, the whole point of bookshare is volunteering and sharing
books. I scan and share what I have and proof what others have submitted. We
get credits from this and hopefully by year's end, we have enough credits to
either satisfy the membership cost or to at least significantly reduce the
amount. However, not taking into consideration the cost, this book wasn't that
long--only 200 or something pages. But take Chances by Jackie Collins. That
book was 800 plus pages. And to receive an email like this makes me want to rip
my hair out by the roots and throw a tantrum to rival my five year old. We all
have lives so I am in no way minimizing what others do. But try being a single
mom of six hormonal girls ranging in age from 18 to 5 and a 4 year old. My time
is in very short supply so I use my insomniac nights to scan and then to get
something like this??? I read each and every page looking for scannos and I
also use sighted help when available. I try to make the proofing as easy as
possible because I have read earlier submitions that never should have made it
to the library. I am using openbook 8 and a lexmark scanner and my
screenreader, Window Eyes 7.2. Somehow I didn't realize that page breaks
weren't happening so read the below email. Does this mean I go and resub my
earlier submitions??? and about proofing. I agree with Patti. I have seen some
of the same books on the list needing to be proofed dating back to May of 2009
and many are on hold. can't we have a moritorium or something stating that if
you haven't done anything with a book on hold for you in say 60 days that it be
returned so that others can have the opportunity to proof? I mean, if there's
nothing interesting to proofread, then your only other option is submitting and
who gets all warm and fuzzy about submitting after receiving an email like this?
----- Original Message -----
From: Bookshare Support
To: season@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:46 PM
Subject: Your book has been marked for more editing
Dear Traci
Thank you for your efforts to prepare a book for Bookshare. We are contacting
you because your submission, Moth to a Flame by Ashley Antoinette has been
marked for more editing before publication on Bookshare.org.
We invite you to contact volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx if you need more information
regarding this submission. We appreciate the time you spend contributing to
Bookshare.org, and look forward to continuing to build the collection together.
Below are some of the specific reasons for the request for further editing of
this submission:
To the submitter: Please keep paragraph breaks (but not line breaks) when you
scan books. To the proofreader: It looks like most pages are one long
paragraph. Please add paragraph breaks where appropriate so they match the
scanned book. Since neither of you left your email address in the comments
section, I can't ask one to contact the other, due to privacy concerns. The
only option left is for the proofreader to get the book from the library and
check it for paragraph breaks. Or release the book and let someone else put in
the paragraph breaks.
Thank you,
The Bookshare Team
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