[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:20:34 -0500
I agree with everyone to some extent. However, many of the children's books
Jamie and I add to the collection actually end up needing to be hand typed. I
cannot begin to tell you how many fonts are never correctly even recognized as
text. Because of that reason if Nichole brings home a book that is in the
collection, I usually check it out, often to find pages of missing text because
the person did not realize that there was text there that could not be
recognized by OCR. Many of the children's books have hand-painted fonts or
imaginary/created fonts to go with a theme. One might be an example of daggers
in the letters or flowers, neither of which are recognized as text by most
engines.
I do think if a person is needing credit toward their membership and they have
worked on the lengthy tomes or complex books including cookbooks and reference
books they should be able to request an additional sum as a reward. I mix in a
few tedious eyes necessary projects to help offset my easier ones and offer my
repairs to incomplete books with no reimbursement necessary.
If anyone needs assistance with their membership fees, I have credits to donate
and will gladly help.
Valerie
On May 7, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Denise Thompson wrote:
> 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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