[bookshare-discuss] Re: I Submitted My First Book
- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:47:48 -0500
Congratulations on your first submission! I well know the thrill you speak of
here. I've been submitting books for a while now and have almost 20 submissions
to my credit now...maybe a few more than that since I've joined Bookshare, and
when I get the notice that one of my books was accepted, I still get excited
over it. <smile> I love to read, and accessible books excite me every time.
<smile> Some books are validated and accepted into the collection fairly
quickly, while others might sit on the admin cue or even on the downloads page
waiting for a validator for a while. There's no set time limit for how long it
can take. The minimum requirement for validating doesn't require that the book
is read completely through. Validators just have to make sure the book is
complete, copyright information is there and correct and maybe a spell check
and some minor cleaning up if need be, but they don't have to edit the book.
Many of us do, but it's not a requirement, so if you submit a book with a lot
of scanning errors, the book may or may not appear in the collection with those
same errors. It just depends on how much the validator wants to do. Take care.
Julie Morales
Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him.
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] I Submitted My First Book
For Science Fiction fans who liked the first two books in Alastair Reynolds'
Inhibitors story, _Revelation Space_ and _Redemption Ark_, I sent up the third
- and last, at least for now - installment _Absolution Gap_ on Tuesday.
Thursday morning I got an email telling me that the book had been reviewed and
accepted for publication on Bookshare. Sure enough, a search for the author
brought up the book. I checked this morning and it's on the New Books list.
Call me strange if you want to, but I got quite a thrill seeing the book I
submitted come up in the author search and the New Books list. Is that a usual
time for books to be validated? Doesn't someone have to read through it to
make sure it's ok? It's a 565-page hardcover that just barely fit on the
scanner. The .txt file was 1.5 megs - my OpenBook seems to put blank lines
between paragraphs when I try to save in .rtf format. (Anybody know if this
can be fixed?) I just finished reading this book literally the day I joined
bookshare, so I wasn't aware of the scanning preferences and therefore I didn't
have an .ark version saved.
NLS really dropped the ball on this one. They have _Revelation Space_ and
the related book _Chasm City_ on tape, but _Redemption Ark_ has been out for
three years and _Absolution Gap_ for two and they aren't even in process yet.
I have a bunch of other books, mainly Science and Science Fiction, that I
have scanned for my own reading pleasure over the years from Openbook and
previously from Oscar which I will be submitting in the near future.
I have several other questions about the validation process that I can't seem
to find answers for on the volunteer homepage faq, which seems a little thin,
and thequestions I've sent to the email address provided don't seem to get a
response. I've sent a few messages to it over the past week with no response
to any of them. How long does it generally take to get one?
I know about the volunteer mailing list, and I'm sure that all these
questions are better asked there, but 50 messages a day - the figure given on
the website - is more volume than I can handle on top of the other email I get.
Thanks for any enlightenment. This is my first message, so apologies for any
violations of conventions.
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