You're costing BookShare money because they're paying twice for books, keeping users dissatisfied, lowering the subscription and resubscription rates, and giving bleeding heart the rep it disserves. Case in point: I have enough creds to get a subscription, but what good does it do me when I look at a book on my wife's shelves, say to myself that I want to read it, just to find out that it's garbage and wind up scanning it myself anyway.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:05 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
Good points all! The volunteer manual states: Validators may recommend that a book be rejected for one of the following reasons: List of 5 items . Book does not meet the Requirements Which Books Must Meet Before Being Added to the Collection . Book is of Poor scan-quality . Book is not in the file format specified on the form.. Book is already in the collection, and the existing copy does not need tobe replaced. . Book is a duplicate of a submission by the same volunteer. list endI browsed around through the manual, but didn't find any definition of "poorquality. Can anyone shed clarity on this? I also understand about the credit thing. If a person can only maintaintheir subscription to BookShare by submitting sloppy scans, then I wouldn'twant to deny them their subscription. (I know.It's my bleeding heart thing.) So here's an alternative to the alternative: Those of us who wish to replace a fair quality submission with a better scan, should download the fair quality offering, validate it for administrative approval as a fair quality book which would give the original scanner the credits, and then submit a BSO version of the same book as a replacement for the one justadded to the collection. This creates a little extra work, but not as muchas trying to clean up a bad scan. It would also move some of those books which have been hanging around the step one page because no one wants to touch them. There must be a solution! Donna
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