[bksvol-discuss] Re: Quick processing of my book
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 04:41:33 -0500
Hey Sarah,
Thanks on the complement. I'm always pleased when those who validate my
books find them to be as good as I think they are.
As for the elipses...I'm betting you were sorry you brought it up per
the ensuing disccussion *grin* got to love the finer points of punctuation
and braille's handling of it.
Best,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Quick processing of my book
> Well the ones I validated recently went through very quickly, or at least
> the credits for my validation showed up quickly.
>
> Did I ever mention that I love validating your submitions? They are so
> easy to validate! All I ever have to do is replace closing quotes with
> plain ordinary quotes, replace single quotes with apostrophes, and replace
> period space period space period with an elipsis that does not include
> spaces. Oh, yes, at times quotes get detached from their proper
sentences,
> which I know is not always apparent when reading with speech. I am just
> fortunate, while editing, and unfortunate while reading, to have something
> that makes that apparent.
> In case anyone should argue that any of those characters are valid so my
> changing them is unnecessary, I will point out that only the changed
> versions will appear correctly in braille. :-)
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> Assistive Technology Trainer
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:38 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Quick processing of my book
>
>
> > I've definitely noticed a somewhat out of order of book processing. I've
> > had
> > since the last Marissa's list, I believe 9 books in the admin queue and
> > none
> > of them have been approved. I'm thinking that Hardy Boys aren't *that*
> > important, but if books are being approved within 48 hours of submission
> > and
> > mine were submitted a few weeks ago and have had plenty of time in the
> > admin
> > queue, what happened to them? I've never had a book disappear on me, so
> > I'm
> > quite sure they're just a ways down in the stack.
> > I've got backgup copies of everything so shall resubmit if they drop
> > off
> > Marissa's list without appearing on the site.
> >
> > Jake
> > www.JBrownell.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:58 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Quick processing of my book
> >
> >
> >> Sarah
> >>
> >> Yep! Nancy Drew 81 was validated around June 23 based on the date
stamp
> >> on my submitted file.
> >> And, that was within a day or so of your submitting it.
> >>
> >> Either, it seems, books get Gustavo's signature of approval almost
> >> immediately or they then tend to languish in a sort of never-never
land.
> >> Charlene's cookbook was one of those fortunate ones which popped into
> >> Gustavo's lap at a time he was apprving books.
> >> I wonder perhaps if the administrative pool is sort of one in which the
> >> newest titles appear on top.
> >> So, the longer the pile doesn't work down to them, the longer they are
> >> destined to languish as more work piles on top of it.
> >> It won't make you feel any better, but I got a couple of them which
> >> are in the same situation as Nancy Drew.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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