[bksvol-discuss] Re: Download Stats
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 15:43:02 -0500
Hey Cindy,
Credits are only applied to an account after the title goes live on
BookShare, not when the user submits or validates something. Therefore I
would have to say that a rejection would not count.
As for not submitting if you scan for your use only, while this would
undoubtedly improve the collection quality wise, we must not lose site of
the original goal behind BookShare. BookShare was originally set up for
people to share scans of books they had scanned for themselves. I believe on
the website somewhere it even says, if you can use it chances are someone
else can too.
Now having said that, I personally work to make my scans the best they
can be. In fact while waiting for Nelson Demille's Night Fall to become live
on BookShare I simply started scanning it for myself because I wanted to
read it. Its nice once in a while not to correct OCR errors and just read it
for myself.
You can be assured that I pay patticular attention to my submissions and
validations, but I won't hold my standards to someone else.
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Download Stats
> But then, Mike, perhaps they (i,e, those people who
> scan for themselves and don't fix them before
> submission) shouldn't submit them. They get $2.50
> credit toward their membership, and the work, or lack
> of it they do, isn't worth it --whereas if anyone
> bothers to validate those books and fix them, that
> person only gets 50 cents credit and does much more
> work. I don't know whether, if a person's submission
> is rejected, that person still gets the credit for the
> submission or not. In some cases, the book may not be
> rejected for quite some time, so I suspect it would be
> hard to take away the credit.
> It seems to me that if a person is scanning books
> for his/her own pleasure reading and doesn't care
> about making it at least minimally readable for other
> people he/she shouldn't submit the book.
>
> Cindy
>
> > (2) Many people scan books for themselves for their
> > own reading as a
> > primary intent. Submitting it to BookShare is a
> > secondary intent.
> > Hence, the person doesn't wish to devote
> > extra time or effort in preparing the book
> > and BookShare receives it "as is."
> ...
> >
> > Both are valid approaches to scanning and
> > sub hence, we
> > shouldn't fault submitters for material submitted
> > prepared for their own
> > use that they wish to share (hence the name
> > BookShare).
> >...
> > And with literally hundreds of romance novels
> > published monthly, and if
> > someone wanted to read many of them for themselves,
> > I can understand
> > why they'd take the fast unchecked approach to
> > scanning them for
> > themselves.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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