I validate pretty much exclusively. I know some of you scan pretty much
exclusively. This is addressed to the ones who do the scans. My
experience is that either a book is practically perfect or it is prone to
patterned scanning errors. i have described many of these and many of us
have made suggestions as to how to fix them. My experience is there is
getting to be less and less middle ground. In other words, scans tend to
be very good and take almost no time to validate or they tend to be full of
patterned errors. Fixing those takes more time for the validator than it
would take the person scanning them to fix.
I do know bookshare subscribers who dislike books full of these scanning
errors and will not download them.
If we really are going for a goal of number of books and are going to
minimize the importance of scanning errors, it is even more important that
the person doing the scans be extra careful and use the latest possible
versions of software to minimize errors. We validators are implicitly
being told to go for quantity over quality and as much as we dislike it
that does seem to be the party line.
E.
