You can renew your book over and over again At present, you can renew indefinitely. Allowing folks to have a longer period between renewals may simply mean a book stays stuck rather than getting validated. Getting thigs moving on step 1 was the reason the five book limit was instituted. I suspect the time between renewals was kept short to promote the same movement process.
E. At 02:16 PM 11/11/2008, you wrote:
This is good to keep in mind, E.! I hope that we can check out books for validation for a longer period of time in the future, rather then the present system. Caitlyn -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 5:46 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater? The more picky you are the better you will be at validating. It is fine if it takes a long long time. I sometimes take a month on a book. We all have lives outside of bookshare. Remembering that you read the book once and make it perfect for many others to read it helps. This seems particularly true with the children's books you mention. Many folks in that age group may be learning braille and developing an interest in reading. You truly serve them by making books directed at young people so perfect. E. At 04:44 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 -0500 > > >Actually, 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 Willyard >Sent: 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_safet y_112008>Sign >up today. > >__________ NOD32 3600 (20081110) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. ><http://www.eset.com>http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.__________ NOD32 3604 (20081111) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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