I believe that accepting fair quality books actually slows the growth of the collection. Not so much because of all the BSO's that are generated, but because new members get hold of them and they are not impressed. If people don't like what they get from Bookshare, they don't join. If we present a quality product, we get more members and if we get more members, more people will become scanners and validators. I hope this makes sense.
Mike----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:23 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
I agree, and was going to suggest that alternative. Maybe it's time the rules changed, *except* for textbooks needed by students for class. G.Cindy --- Ilene Sirocca <ilenesia@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I certainly sympathize with this suggestion, but I do have a problem with it. The problem is that so far, book are not supposed to be rejected because they are rated fair. If they were, we wouldn't have the fair rating allowed in the first place. If a validator who is also a scanner rejects the original scanner's fair book and then submits a scan of her own, she takes away the original scanner's credits, no matter how undeserved they might be in terms of book quality, and gives them to herself. This is not your intention, but this is what happens. If Bookshare wants to have more excellent scans it has to go to the root of the problem and not allow people to submit fair scans, or maybe even good ones although that's more debatable I suppose. Yes, some scanners may drop out if they're held to a higher responsibility, so that has to be part of the consideration of this matter. But if excellent books is what we are after, the original rules have to be tougher. If just getting as many books as possible is the goal, then fair scans have to stay. Personally, I'd vote for a slower groth rate and a higher quality. There's my two cents' worth. IleneWISH LIST (called Requested Additions To The Bookshare Collection)is available athttp://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm www.jbrownell.com for miscellaneous and useful threads ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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