[bksvol-discuss] Missing things when validating.
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:51:41 -0700 (PDT)
I find that what I miss most often when I'm caught up in the book I'm
validating is page breaks, when they're not there in the first place. After I
finish reading a validation I do a final spell-check and a final page-number
check, and I have found, when numbers were missing from the scan or page breaks
were missing, that I sometimes put in the same page number twice or forgot to
put in a page break.
Cindy
--- On Thu, 8/7/08, james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: my disappointment
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 3:50 AM
> Dear Jill,
> I only take books to validate that I am interested in
> reading. That way, I
> know I will be more careful than I otherwise might be. I am
> sure I still
> miss things though. I am most likely to miss things when I
> get caught up in
> the book.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
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> I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I guess I
> hope someone from
> Bookshare staff will see this and begin to think how the
> situation can be
> improved. I am presently reading for pleasure Out of the
> Deep I cry by
> Julia
> Spencer-fleming. It is a mystery and I highly recommend her
> books for you
> mystery buffs out there. This book has an excellent rating
> and was scanned,
>
> of course, by the infamous bookshare volunteer. I may be
> exaggerating a bit
>
> but there is hardly a page in this book that does not have
> a mistake of
> some
> type, including such things as die for the, mat for that,
> etc. etc. My
> point
> in talking about this is to say that it is obvious that
> neither the
> submitter nor the validator read this book. In my opinion
> if the submitter
> has not read the book being submitted, this should be made
> clear, then
> hopefully only a validator who is interested in reading the
> book should
> take
> it. I can understand if someone volunteers to scan a book
> on the wish list
> that they are really not that interested in, but in that
> case it is even
> more important that thevalidator wants to read the book. If
> no validator
> wants to read it including the person who put it on the
> wish list, then I
> would suggest that the book isn't worth being in the
> colection. I hope some
>
> day I feel like taking the time to rescan this book because
> I am ashamed
> that it will be left on the excellent list otherwise. And,
> of course, that
> means Bookshare will pay $10 instead of $5 to have the book
> in the
> collection. I know this book can't have been in the
> collection for a long
> time by the way it is presented in braille. That means that
> scanners are
> capable of doing a far better job of scanning than is seen
> here. I
> recently
> validated a book submitted by Jim Baugh and you know what a
> great job he
> does. I was reading the book along with others and realized
> I was really
> holding up his book too long so I put it through
> Kurzweil's paces and
> submitted it. When I picked it up later as an approved book
> to finish
> reading it, I recorded 22 mistakes that I had missed. That
> is an acceptable
>
> number even though I feel bad about it but I think it
> proves how necessary
> it is that someone, be it submitter or validator really
> reads the book from
>
> cover to cover. And now that validators are being paid
> $2.50 per book, that
>
> means that only twenty books need to be read carefully per
> year in order to
>
> maintain a free membership. Thank you all for letting me
> vent and I
> sincerely hope that the Bookshare staff can find some way
> to express these
> concerns to those volunteers not on this list. Jill
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