[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:59:50 -0800 (PST)

Very good points.

G.Cindy

--- Allison Hilliker <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If one does follow Donna's suggestion of submitting
> excellent copies of fair
> quality books on the step one page, I have one
> request.  Please submit your
> excellent copy to the step one page before rejecting
> the fair quality scan.
> I say this because I know of scanners who reject
> books because they say they
> will submit a better scan, and then they don't do
> it.
> 
> Just my thoughts,
> 
> Allison
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:22 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] An alternative to
> validating fair quality
> submissions
> 
> 
> > Hi all.
> >
> >
> >
> > I apologize in advance if this suggestion ruffles
> feathers, but it is made
> > in the spirit of getting excellent quality books
> into the collection.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am one of the volunteers who believes that
> "validating" a book shouldn't
> > involve rewriting it because the scan is poor. 
> There are some books which
> > have strange formatting or difficult tables and
> charts or other things
> > that
> > typically don't scan well and the only way to get
> such books into the
> > collection is in fact for a very patient validator
> to go through the whole
> > book and fix problematic errors that a rescan
> won't fix.
> >
> >
> >
> > However, there are a lot of books on the step one
> download page that are
> > just straightforward text, fiction or nonfiction,
> that should scan with no
> > problems, but are rated as fair.  In my opinion,
> it is a waste of
> > volunteer
> > time and effort to have a validator make these
> scans passable.
> >
> >
> >
> > So here's my alternative.  If I, or any other
> scanner, obtains a copy of a
> > book that is currently awaiting validation and
> rated fair, would it be
> > appropriate for us to download the fair copy,
> reject it, and then upload a
> > better scan of the same book?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?  Ideas?  No rotten tomatoes please!
> >
> >
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >
> 
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