[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:27:39 -0800 (PST)
That's all that I would say, too. I read the book, do a final spell-check to
find anything I might have missed in reading (I suspect that my eyes might
actually miss some things that you who can't see wouldn't, especially if I'm
interested in the story--and I always do a check for space 1 space to be sure
it isn't supposed to be space capital I space, since in some fonts it's hard it
to tell), and I do a final page number check. I suppose that isn't important as
the text follows logically, but I have found that I've either doubled a page
number or omitted it on occasion.
Cindy
--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 9:12 AM
> Caitlyn, I love your idea. (smile) That's a great way to
> help improve the
> quality of our books. I think we have a lot of
> highly-skilled validaters
> around here who could lend a hand. I will just ask for one
> thing to be
> included, and it seems almost unnecessarily obvious.
> It's the one thing that
> a person can do to build a great foundation. Please, please
> read the book
> all the way through. You can do a lot with a spellchecker
> and removing
> headers, but reading the book itself is the way you can
> catch scannos like
> the word car for cat or die for the. It's also how you
> can be certain that
> all pages are present since scanners don't always
> handle page numbers well.
> There are literally thousands of books in the collection
> that were scanned
> pretty well but that needed someone to read through and
> remove scannos. I
> know Bookshare doesn't require people to read a book
> and that the validation
> process was different five years ago. Where we are now in
> 2008 is a new
> landscape for volunteers. Since validaters get the same
> amount of credit
> submitters do, I think it's fair for validaters to read
> the book just as
> submitters are required to scan the whole book.
>
>
>
> Ok, I've said my piece. I'm going back to my
> scanner now. (smile) Now where
> did I put my coffee cup?
>
>
>
> Monica Willyard
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