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

  • From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:56:02 -0500

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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