[bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help aka raw foods made easy
- From: Kelly Pierce <kkellyp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:37:35 -0600
Evan,
I submitted the book with the letters BSO in front of the title and
received a confirmation e-mail. The re-submission process was as
flawless as you said.
Thanks for your help.
Kelly
On 12/11/11, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Mayrie. I did an advanced search by title and didn't find it, but I
> apparently I had the title wrong both times I looked. Thanks for saving me
> from looking under the author's name (which I didn't have originally).
>
> Grandma Cindy Maybe author is a better way to look; or all variations of a
> title should be tried. W are so lucky you are one of us!
>
> Grandma Cindy
>
>
>
>
>>________________________________
>> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 7:36 AM
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help aka raw
>> foods made easy
>>
>>Hi Kelly,
>>
>>Is this the book you've been talking about?
>>
>>Raw Food Quick & Easy: Over 100 Healthy Recipes by Mary Rydman
>>
>>If it is, the reason that the book was rejected is because it is already in
>>the bookshare collection and was donated by the publisher.
>>
>>I know the title of the book I've provided here is not exactly as you have
>>quoted, but since the reason that you stated for the book's having been
>>rejected is because the book was already in the collection, I thought I'd
>>check.
>>
>>If this is your book, the reason that it was rejected is because it is
>>already in the collection, donated by the publisher, so another copy is not
>>permitted to reside in the Bookshare collection.
>>
>>A submitter can submit a copy of a previous submission when more editing is
>>needed. It's just a good idea for the first to be removed from the
>> checkout
>>page first so that proofreading isn't done on a potentially incomplete book
>>in instances when further editing requires additions to the book needing
>>more editing. I do not, however, find your book anywhere in process, so am
>>unsure why you are unable to submit another copy of the book. Which, by
>> the
>>way, you needn't do if the book I've mentioned above is indeed the book
>>you've been trying to get approved.
>>
>>Does any of that help?
>>
>>If not, please, let's keep this conversation going, and I'll try to help
>>answer your questions and figure out what has happened with your book.
>>
>>Mayrie
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kelly Pierce
>>Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 6:50 AM
>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Cc: Carrie Karnos; alisam@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help aka raw
>>foods made easy
>>
>>Dear Cindy,
>>
>>Thanks for checking. The actual title is "Raw Food Made Easy." "Food"
>>has no "s" in the title.
>>
>>Why does Bookshare prevent the volunteer who uploaded the book originally
>>from re-uploading a corrected version after it has been rejected? Also,
>> why
>>does bookshare not explain how to re-upload the book in the e-mail it sends
>>when a book is rejected? Neither Scott nor Allison have explained this.
>>
>>Kelly
>>
>>
>>
>>On 12/11/11, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I checked the collection, Books available for checkout, rejection list
>>> and approval list, I could find Raw Foods Made Easy nowhere. Maybe
>>> Carrie can help--or our new volunteer liaison (sp?) I'll copy both of
>>> them. (smile
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Kelly Pierce <kkellyp@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Cc:
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:24 PM
>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Re-Committed Volunteer Needs Help
>>>>
>>>> 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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