Dear Tracey and Booksharian Friends,
Applause, Tracey!
As a volunteer and reader I see both sides of this coin, and when you
strip headers and protect chapter names as you do, both sides of your coin
are shiny!
Scanning and validating aren't races, nor, even with the raise, they
aren't money making ventures. If a volunteer is too rushed to strip
headings, check page numbers, remove junk and do some proofreading and
spellchecking, then scanning and validating might not be their best fit
for volunteer work.
Yesterday I downloaded a book from the new books page rated excellent. It
had headers on every other page, page numbers scrambled and missing, and
clumps of junk characters throughout. This book was neglected by both the
scanner and the validator. I think one reason 2 people work on each book
is so that if one is careless, the other will compensate. Nobody took
pride in their work with this book. Neither gave it a second thought
Early on, one of the volunteers confided his method of systematically
searching for junk characters as part of his protocol for validating a
book. If either of the volunteers had searched for pound, dollar, caret,
bracket, and slash signs, they could have removed shovelfuls , or they
could have deleted them while reading the book. The book was infested.
As far as I'm concerned, this book needs a rescan. When the raise in
compensation comes in to effect, this means each mucked up book which is
approved and then has a BSO approved will cost Bookshare ten dollars
instead of five, and taking into account the administrative costs, this
number goes way up. I once heard the expense to Bookshare was 50 dollars
for each book approval. That number sounds pretty arbitrary, and could be
way off, but volunteers who submit and upload substandard books are
drawing money from the organization for doing shoddy work, leaving the
real work to conscientious volunteers costing Bookshare double, possibly a
hundred dollars a book, and frustrating members who are disappointed with
the books they download from a book source they'd like to trust to provide
reliably accurate books. What kind of help is that?
I'm not proposing changes, and I realize volunteers on this list are here
because they pride themselves in doing good work. We're on the honor
system and I wish we had a means of encouraging careless volunteers to be
more honorable and to adopt higher standards.
And, if the costs I've used are way off the mark, please correct me.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:12 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: chapter headings preserved redux
If you're sure that *every* header is *exactly* the same, down to the
number of spaces between words, then the stripper will take care of them,
and you don't have to. But I'd put something above chapter headings
anyway, just in case the stripper gets carried away with itself and
strips
chapter headings.
Anymore, when I'm validating, I take out the headers and leave the page
numbers. I've gotten too many books from Bookshare with header garbage
all over the place, and it drives me nuts. So I take the headers out on
books I work on, to save someone else's sanity.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Tracy
I am so confused about headings any more. I have a scan that has
prefect headers. If the master stripper is going to remove them, why
do I have to?
Cindy Lou--Think Pink
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:52 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] chapter headings preserved redux
I'm starting to validate a new book. Am I correct in
interpreting the recent posts correctly that I don't
have to put anything on the line above the chapter
number, which is the written word, even if the page
numbers are all at the bottom? Or is that a safe thing
to do only when the page numbers are at the top of the
page?
Cindy
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