[bksvol-discuss] Re: Outsourcers
- From: Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:33:23 -0400
Hi,
This doesn't have anything to do with what we are discussing on this particular
subject line but it's similar in content. There are three books in the
collection by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. The first one is called the
outstretched shadow the second is to light a candle and the third is when
darkness falls. Why do I bring these up? Well, in reading the first two I have
noticed some definite scanning errors words that are supposed to be completely
different from what are in the book. For an example in I believe it is chapter
19 of the first book they are talking about slave pits instead of using the
word slave they use the word stove and for the word filled they used fitted
There are many errors in the second one definitely in the first chapter I
haven't gotten to the third one yet but it might be a good idea for one of you
old hands if you can handle some violence and like fantasy reading to read over
these yourself and see what you think. Personally my instinct is to say that at
least the first two need to be rescanned and reproofed for errors.
Thanks
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On Aug 24, 2012, at 2:42 AM, "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And I was just about to do the Collegium Trilogy. Plus I have done several
> books in the past which went PQ. I have nothing against PQ or outsourcers. I
> do have something against wasting my time when I could add another book to
> the donate pile.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey"
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> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 7:26 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Outsourcers
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>
>> I don't think it is a foregone conclusion that just because one series title
>> has been done by an outsourcer that the rest of the series will be. However,
>> that does bring up a good question. We used to have a list called the master
>> list. It was an earlier version of the books being scanned list. It was one
>> of Bookshare's wikis, so it was hard to navigate with a screen reader. It
>> supposedly listed all books being worked on by both volunteers and
>> outsourcers. The last time I saw it, it seemed to be neglected. That is, it
>> was out of date. As far as I know, it might still be around, but if it is I
>> no longer have a link to it. I may have lost that when my old computer went
>> kaput. Is it still around? I never heard an announcement that it was being
>> discontinued. Whether it is or not it would be good to have something like
>> it. We have the books being scanned list so that we will not start working
>> on a book that someone else is working on, but we don't have a way to know
>> what the outsourcers are working on. I can imagine why it was not being kept
>> up to date though. When the books being scanned list was started we were
>> told that we should send an email to the same address that we send
>> announcements that we are going to scan a book to announce that our book had
>> entered the collection so that it could be removed because Bookshare did not
>> have the resources to keep checking the newly added books against the books
>> being scanned list. If that is the case then I would suppose that it would
>> be hard to keep track of which books the outsourcers had done that had
>> entered the collection too. I do know, though, that I once ordered a book
>> with the intention of scanning it and on the day it arrived I did one more
>> check of the collection to find out that it had been added only the day
>> before from an outsourcer. That was before the master list, but if that
>> master list had been in existence then I could have saved myself from
>> ordering the book.
>> On 8/23/2012 2:53 PM, Gary Petraccaro wrote:
>>> I was thinking about doing the Collegium sequence from Mercedes Lackey, but
>>> it seems an outsourcer has done the first volume. Can I assume that the
>>> others will also be done and where can I find out what's in the pipeline so
>>> I don't waste more of my time? I appologize if this question has been asked
>>> lots of times.
>>> Thanks in advance.
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