[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 09:23:58 -0500
Hi Debby,
Submitters and proofreaders get the same, $2.50 per book. In the past,
proofreaders only got $.50, but that was changed sometime ago.
Sue S.
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From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:55 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
Hi everyone!
I have never been clear on this. Do we get credit for scanning only or
both proofreading and scanning? I thought it was scanning since I have
been a member, joining in 2005, but have not been sure since joining this
list last October. It wasn't anything anyone said, it was just that I feel
much more plugged in since joining the list, because I am part of the
community now, rather than feeling just out there on my own as a member
only who scanned and submitted a few books now and then during my
pre-list/volunteer days.
Debby
At 11:20 AM 5/6/2010, Roger Loran Bailey wrote
>Just to make it clear, I was not complaining about the pay. As a matter of
>fact, if my main concern was the accumulation of those $2.50 credits I
>would go back to just proofing rather than scanning and choose the easiest
>shortest children's books, or if I did continue the scanning I would
>choose something easier than these mostly nonfiction books I am doing. I
>was just agreeing and emphasizing the point that the credits are only
>tokens and since they are tokens I am quite satisfied that the most
>difficult book gets the same token as the easiest fifteen page book about
>Big Bird. I use a Big Bird book as an example because it was the easiest
>one I have done. It took about five minutes to earn that credit.
>
>
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
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>>
>><smile> Well, people, we are, after all, volunteers. If we are going to
>>start wanting pay, we will no longer be volunteers in the true sense of
>>the
>>word. In fact, when I first started volunteering, I told the staff that I
>>wanted to do it for no credits, because it did not seem like true
>>volunteering when I got credits for it. Our sighted volunteers get
>>credits
>>too, but they cannot use them to pay towards a subscription like we can.
>>
>>And please, I am not wanting to start a ranting session. (smile)
>>
>>Sue S.
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey"
>><rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:37 AM
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
>>
>>
>>Token is right. When I think of the work I put in to get a $2.50 credit
>>minimum wage starts to look like a fortune.
>>
>>
>>_ _ _
>>
>>"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always
>>convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw
>>
>>
>>The Militant:
>>http://www.themilitant.com
>>Pathfinder Press:
>>http://www.pathfinderpress.com
>>Granma International:
>> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx>
>>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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