[bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help
- From: Kelly Pierce <kkellyp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:24:55 -0600
Dear bob,
the title of the book is "raw food Made Easy." Thanks for your offer of help.
Kelly
On 12/9/11, Bob W <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Kelly, welcome back.
>
> Can you tell us the name of the book, so we can check on its current status?
>
> Thanks.
> Bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:41 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help
>
>
> HI Kelly and Evan,
>
> One more thing, if the book was returned to the check out page for more
> editing, since Kelly can't check out the book, someone needs to reject the
> original copy, and then the edited copy can be resubmitted by Kelly.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:01 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help
>
> If the book is already in the collection, and you believe the copy you
> scanned is superior in quality, then you would submit your copy as a BSO,
> (Better Scan Of), which would replace the original. If your book is not
> already in the collection, then when you made the corrections that were
> requested, you would resubmit it in the same manner as you submitted it the
> first time, without the BSO code in the title. So in either case, there
> would be no duplicate book. Since your book was rejected based on the issues
> you mentioned, it is safe to assume that there is no copy in the collection,
> or your book would have been rejected on that basis. So once you are
> satisfied that you've done the corrections, just submit the book exactly as
> you did before.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelly Pierce" <kkellyp@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:32 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help
>
>
>> Dear Bookshare volunteers,
>>
>> Greetings from Chicago! I have been a member of Bookshare shortly
>> after it got started and submitted some of my book scans then. I
>> stopped submitting books a couple years later. I recently began
>> submitting the books I have scanned for myself over the years and
>> discovered things seemed to have changed significantly with much
>> higher expectations of the scanned books.
>>
>> I appreciate greatly this emphasis on creating a quality experience
>> for Bookshare readers. Folks recognize that for information to be
>> useful it needs to be complete and accurate. I have been reading many
>> Bookshare books lately and am much pleased to find consistent accuracy
>> and quality of the accessible text. I have withdrawn my support from
>> Learning Ally because of the organization's inattentiveness to
>> quality; the vast bulk of amateur podcasts have higher production
>> standards than their books.
>>
>> I recently received a message saying a book I submitted was rejected.
>> I was asked to correct garbage text and format tables properly. I
>> also changed many fractions from using the letter l to the number one.
>> This is a cookbook.
>>
>> The e-mail encouraged me to resubmit the book when the issues were
>> corrected. However, it didn't say how to do this. Please help me
>> know what to do in this situation. When I went to upload the book
>> again, there was a warning saying that duplicate books should not be
>> submitted. Yet, there is a code for a better-scanned copy.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I cannot claim I scanned this book again. It is a
>> corrected copy. The parts with colored text would likely yield the
>> same garbage characters if scanned again. It seems silly that
>> Bookshare only wants re-scanned books rather than corrected books. If
>> a book has many fewer errors than before, why is it important for
>> Bookshare on how this higher quality performance was achieved?
>>
>> I replied to the message, which came from support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, with
>> some questions and attached the corrected copy of the book. I also
>> sent the message to volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx as instructed in the
>> message. I have not heard back and I am not sure what to do about
>> this book or when other books might be rejected in the future. Please
>> provide support and advice.
>>
>> Also, I am currently using OpenBook 6 to scan books. Do folks believe
>> this version produces inferior scanning results for today's Bookshare
>> expectations compared to the current shipping version of this product?
>>
>> Kelly
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