Strikes me as a interesting suggestion, Cindy. I'll talk to the team more about it on Tuesday, when I'm back from the DAISY tech conference. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Grandma Cindy [mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:39 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Jim Fruchterman; Lisa Friendly Subject: Bookshare changes and quality rating I'm breathless. It sounds wonderful!! Jim, I would like a little more explanation that part of number five that involves setting "the default to view Excellent or better content..." I assume that means that when members sign up they can choose what level of quality books they want access to and that Excellent or better will be the default? There will be a way to choose books with a lesser rating, as there is now to choose whether or not one wants access to Adult books? May I suggest that a default rating for submitted scans be totally eliminated? As it is now, I believe the default is fair, and many submitters, and indeed some validators, don't notice that and/or don't change it. This some Excellent books get into the collection, or on the step one page, rated Fair. When on the step one page, they're not as quickly validated because people stay away from them. If the quality rating was something that scanners and validators had to fill in themselves, and without it the file couldn't be submitted, books would be rated more accurately, I believe. Cindy ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews, get listings, and more! http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/3658 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.