[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 16:29:58 -0400
That may be true of many children's books, but as someone who has scanned a
couple hundred of them, a great many kid's books can be bears to scan. It's
easier to scan 300 pages of straight text than a fifty page children's book
with illustrations on every page with text above and/or below them, or on the
left and right sides. Those take quite a bit of work to get into decent shape,
and many children's books are like that. So I'm not so sure that scanning and
proofing kid's books should get less credit than fiction books for adults. They
often take more work than books for adults several times their size; and I
haven't even mentioned picture descriptions, if the submitter or proofreader
takes the time to describe them. Many children's books aren't much good without
them.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Denise Thompson
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 1:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
Well, when it comes down to it, there is also a big difference in scanning
and proofing childrens books than doing fiction books. Most childrens' books
are less than 50 pages. Some a lot less. That takes a whole lot less time than
average novels of 200 plus pages. Personally I think there should be a
different credit amount for kids books verses adult books also.
It seems that once we start down that slope, though it starts getting very
complicated and more difficult for book share to track. And the credits are a
tocon anyway. It doesn't have any reference to actual hours spent, etc. Each of
us can scan or proof the same book and it takes us different time amounts
depending on equipment, software and skill- whether you have sight or not, etc.
It's hard to know where the cut-offs should be if we start assigning differing
amounts of credits for different categories of books.
Denise
At 02:51 AM 5/6/2010, you wrote:
I was talking to another BookShare member and I was saying I think
nonfiction books should be worth more credits to the validator/submitter. For
one, they tend to be longer. For another, they often contain charts, diagrams,
section headings, indices, etc. Many special features that need special
handling. Thirdly, they are more difficult to obtain short of purchasing your
own copy. I think people don't touch them immediately because of the
time-consuming nature of validating them. Just a thought.
Andromache
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