Any volunteer can check for quality. Those of us with K1000's rank spelling can check it pretty quickly.
*** Grace
For scanning and validating tips check out http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/tl.asp
Cindy, does someone check which copy is better? Poor Ruth has been Drowning in the admin queue for a month. It was one of the bounty books, but there was no indication that someone had already taken it. But it's nowon BS. This has happened so often, I feel like we're duplicating each other's work, which strikes me as an inefficient use of my time.
But, I'm weak, and I'll be back, I'm sure. And I will keep checking that the books I've worked on haven't been returned for something like copyright.
Mickey
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:43 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sad decision
Mickey, it's more than possible that the books you're spending so much time and care on are in better shape than the ones in the admin q. You should approve and upload them as Excellent and as possible replacements for the ones that are there. Or hold on to them and when the appear in the collection see what they're like. As I said yesterday, I don't think the administrators check anything more than the copyright info, and books are often mis-labled as to quality--witness Dust and Ashes. Good is rarely really godd--more like Fair is pretty awful. If the one that makes it into the collection isn't as good as yours, you can submit yours as a replacement, and your efforts will not have been for naught.
Cindy
Cindy
--- mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, Group.
This is my third year of volunteering with Bookshare. I think it's a great source of wonderful reading material of all types.
However, I know that the Palo Alto center is understaffed, that they're behind. But in the past month I've validated or nearly validated books that were in the administrative queue, which ended up being a total waste of my time. I read a book thoroughly, making corrections when I can as well as spellchecking.
It's impossible to know what is being done, or what has been done--both for the scanner and the validator.
I'm taking a course in medical transcribing, plus working, and can't afford to spin my wheels.
So, for now, I'll stop volunteering. I'll keep abreast of things, in case things get better, but I'm returning the books I've taken to validate.
It's been good working with you all. Thanks.
Mickey
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
