[bksvol-discuss] Re: Huray, it works!
- From: "Julia" <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:09:16 -0400
Sure, I can think of one book that was rated faire. I'm on vacation right now,
but when I get back to Montreal and I can scan with my trusty opticbook, I'll
see if my library has it and rescan it.
Julia
----- Original Message -----
From: Mickey
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Huray, it works!
Sure, I'd be game.
Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Willyard
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Huray, it works!
Yay! Way to go Bookshare engineers! (big smile) You know, since we aren't
slammed with books to work on right now, it might be a good time for some of us
to rescan some of the books we put up as new submitters, the ones we'd like to
hide from view because we didn't know what we were doing. Since it's so common
for people to make mistakes on our early scans and proofreads, there's really
no shame in admitting it to each other and doing something to replace them.
Would the proofreaders among us be willing to work on some replacement scans if
the submitters are willing to do a BSO of one of our scans this month? For
anyone who doesn't know, BSO stands for better scan of. I'll bet many of us
have at least one book that is rated fair or good that we'd just as soon
pretend didn't exist. (smile) If we work together, we could replace those with
clean scans that we'd be proud for people to see on our bookshelves. We know
how to do it right this time. Some of us may still have our print books, and
others may be able to get a copy from the library to scan. We could have fun
with this and work on each other's BSO books and give readers some nice
surprises. Since poor scans are hidden for new members by default, our BSOs
will look like new books to those folks, and they may discover some new authors
and ideas from our work.
My library has two of the books I submitted that I can rescan. I'll go put
a hold on them right now so my dad can pick them up for me on his way home.
Coincidentally, I'm almost finished proofreading a BSO scan one of our
submitters did recently. Even though I've read the book before, I'm enjoying
rereading it so much that I find myself holding my breath at the exciting
parts. (grin)
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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