[bksvol-discuss] Re: Killers Wake by Bernard Cornwell -- Sorry, had to nuke it

  • From: The Pardees <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:06:37 -0400

Mickey, 
If you follow the guidelines for validating supplied by Bookshare you will
do fine.  I know there are a number of "perfectionists on the list and may
the Lord bless them,   but Bookshare does not require perfection. When I
scan a book I try to do the best job I can, but since I use speech, I am
sure there are a number of mistakes I miss that would be caught by a
sighted or Braille using validator.     Just do the best you can and don't
leave us.

Jim





At 05:00 PM 6/14/04 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I'm a fairly new validator. I'm not sure how to make sure every page is
>perfect. I believed this was a volunteer job, where I could make books
>available to myself and others, increasing the scanned material available.
>If a book is complete and readable, I've been validating it. If it is a
>textbook, page numbers are important. Otherwise, I didn't think it made that
>much difference.
>
>What I'm getting from this is I may as well throw in the sponge, let others
>do the work, and worry about page numbers. I can then worry about content.
>I'm a proofreader, so am considered pretty anal. But this tops me.
>
>Not to start a war, just trying to find out if I'm truly screwing up.
>
>Mickey
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Pam Quinn" <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:06 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Killers Wake by Bernard Cornwell -- Sorry, had
>to nuke it
>
>
>> Definitely agree with everything said here. I've been validating my
>> own submissions a lot lately for that very reason, not to mention that
>> there is a surplus of books waiting for validation right now anyway.
>> If we submit books and know them to be of excellent quality and an
>> easy validation, why not get them validated ourselves.
>>
>> Pam
>>
>> Original message:
>>
>>
>> >Well, what I have learned from this  discussion is that I will validate
>my own stuff from now on. I am not going to leave blank pages and pages with
>only images in books, and I'm not going to have somebody come
>> >along and decide that excellent quality text that I submit is messed up
>because they see issues with page numbering discrepancies. Its irritating to
>have blank pages in books. I can see it for reference materials with an
>> >index, but not for your everyday average novel. I didn't submit this
>particular book. But if I did, and I found out that it got zapped because I
>had left out blank pages, I wouldn't be particularly happy. And what do you
>> >do with books whose page numbers get scrambled by the ocr? I just had one
>like that. I have no idea why, but the page numbers were quite often messed
>up. Do you honestly think its worthwhile for somebody to
>> >spend a bunch of time fixing up page numbers in a novel that nobody's
>going to read for reference when they could be spending that same amount of
>time fixing actual text errors in some other book or scanning
>> >another book?  It would be nice if wew could release with comments,
>because that way, you could have put that back into the pool with a comment
>that you found page number problems but didn't check for actual
>> >text continuity.  It just seems to me that too much can go wrong with
>page numbers, and people can and will leave blanks and images out. So nuking
>for page numbering discontinuity will inevitibly result in good texts
>> >wasted and volunteers being less than thrilled because perfectly good
>texts that they spent time on have been zapped due to an over reliance on an
>error-prone method for validation.
>> >Mary
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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