I know it sometimes takes me a lot longer to validate depending on the legnth of the book.
and the content....I can read fiction much faster than non fiction LOL. Laura Ann At 03:44 PM 11/10/2008, you wrote:
I'm a new voluteer and the first thing I would have liked to know was how much time it takes to validate a book. I couldn't decide if I was too picky because it would take up to 4 hours to do Hanna Montana! I've gotten a little faster now. Especially when the manual only says to make sure all the pages are there.I think one thing this discussion has shown me is you can't be too picky (or is that obsessive?)When I became a new voluteer I asked for a mentor. Maybe as new people sign up we could have a list of people on a greeting committee to help them through the first few books. I know it doesn't take long to catch on.The other Cindy R. ---------- From: lavendar@xxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:38:15 -0500Actually, Monica, you make a good point about reading the entire book through. the manual doesn't say that you must do this as a validater. I must say, that the times that I did just even skim through the book, and sort of "zoned out" while "reading", I missed some critical things..so..yeah, reading each and every book you validate all the way through is a good place to start!Caitlyn -----Original Message-----From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica WillyardSent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:13 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?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 ----------Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. <http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_safety_112008>Sign up today.
