[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
- From: "Pavi Mehta" <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:16:58 -0700
Hi Evan,
Thanks for writing in. To answer your question, all the outsourcers do
have guidelines on book processing including how to protect chapter
headings etc. They do process a very high volume of books and are
definitely not infallible, so if there are errors that you or other
volunteers are noticing, please do file a quality report if you are able
to so that we can address it either at the individual book level or if
is something more widespread at the training level.
Warm regards,
Pavi
Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone: +1 650 644-3459
pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.benetech.org
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:34 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
Hmmm, if I'm at the point where I'm missing the beginning of a new
chapter or worse, the beginning of a new story, I go to bed or do
something else until my mind is ready to stay on the book.
More to the point is that apparently noone at Bookshare bothered to tell
Daproim Africa how to protect section headings in books. Which seems
strange to me, given the amount of bandwidth that has been devoted to
this topic on this list. Makes me wonder how familiar those who
communicate with the outsourcers are with how books get into the
collection, especially about issues that can affect quality such as
section headings being stripped unless they are protected in some way.
Anyone from the staff who has spent much time on this list would have
known to tell them to take care of that. Currently, I see that D.A. has
added 1,032 books to the collection. If they were not told about
protecting headings, then I wonder what the chances are that any of the
other outsourcers were advised about this. Which means that there may
well be thousands upon thousands of books, fairly recently added books,
that will be missing chapter titles, story titles, etc.
I certainly hope that this is not the case.
Evan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
Sometimes even with the titles there I somehow miss them. In
fact, even with human narrated NLS books they have managed to slip by
me. I am inclined to think that we need an announcement something like
this: "Attention! Attention! Attention! A new story is about to start!
Prepare yourself to switch gears. The last story has ended! Read on and
you will be reading another story!"
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in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx
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I am currently reading
"Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson".
This is a book of short stories, and, dammit, some of the story
titles are missing.
There's nothing more disparaging than to be reading a story and
have something surrealistic happen only to find out it's a different
story.
We had this problem with the old stripper but I thought her
younger daughter had learned better.
Can't engineering fix something as minor as a story title?
Bob (mad as a wet hen)!
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committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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