I like the quality report too, but my reason might be more of a comment
on my own insecurities rather than on its usefulness. The first time I
uploaded a book I had scanned I was very unsure of what I was doing.
When I found the link to the misspelled words I used it and looked for
words that were specific to the book I was uploading, like names of
characters or other words that would be unlikely to appear in other
books. When I found them I was reassured that I was doing the upload
properly. The second time I uploaded one I did the same thing. And I am
still doing it. I can assure you that not once have I ever uploaded the
wrong book, but somehow I get reassurance from looking at that list of
misspelled words anyway. Sometimes it is a little disheartening too. I
meticulously check my scans for scanning errors and correct them. Yet, I
have never uploaded a book that once I looked at the list of misspelled
words I did not find errors that I had missed. By the time I get that
far I am usually really tired of working on the book, so I am not about
to abort the upload procedure and go back to make the corrections. I
decide at that point that the proofreader ought to have a little
correcting to do, so in that way it doesn't really help me either. In
other words, like so many things, it is something that I like without
having any real good reason to like it. In that way it is like the most
popular list and the newly added list. By no means would I choose my
reading material based on the fact that a lot of other people are
choosing it and not on the basis that it had just been added to the
collection, but somehow I feel compelled to peruse those lists every day
anyway.
On 3/14/2016 3:58 PM, Lori Castner (Redacted sender loralee.castner for
DMARC) wrote:
I found the quality report to be helpful.
Lori C.
*From:*bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *john.falter
*Sent:* Monday, March 14, 2016 12:53 PM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: No Quality Report
That's not acceptable!!!
The BookShare spell checker accumulates errors and puts them in a table--one line for each type of misspelling.
MsWord finds them one at a time--often thousands.
On 3/14/2016 2:13 PM, Vanessa Wai wrote:
I followed up with our engineering team about the quality check
function in Bookshare. The quality report numbers from the quality
check did not have very much meaning, so a decision was made to
disable it. Unfortunately, spell check has also been disabled
because it was part of the quality check function. We are asking
volunteers to run spell check within the editor that they are
using to proof the RTF prior to submitting books to Bookshare.
We apologize for not notifying you about this change earlier and
for any concern and frustration it caused. Please let me know if
you have any additional questions.
Vanessa
*From:*bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Sandra
Ryan
*Sent:* Sunday, March 13, 2016 6:58 PM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: No Quality Report
Hi Evan,
I uploaded three books on Thursday or Friday and got the very same
thing. Frankly, I didn’t know if they would go through, but they
did. It’s disconcerting, for sure!
Sandi
*From:*bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Evan Reese
*Sent:* Sunday, March 13, 2016 3:06 PM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] No Quality Report
Hey Guys,
I submitted a book just now, but for what I think is the first
time ever, I didn’t get a quality report when I uploaded it, just
the generic text about what makes a book get an Excellent rating
and so on; but nothing about how many misspellings it found, nor
how many page breaks. Anyone else seen that?
Evan
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