[bksvol-discuss] Re: The book for the Christian Book Clug, Second Opinion -- IMPORTANT

  • From: Barbara <barbarab65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:42:20 -0800 (PST)

The controversy is that I already scanned the missing pages and cleaned up the 
other errors and submitted the book and it was accepted into the collection. I 
am sorry if I went against protocol but I just wanted to get the best possible 
file since people are presently reading the book for the Christian Book Club. 
Whoever validated the old file did a great job and, as  I said before, the 
errors I found in the file would have not been detected if I had not had the 
print  copy of the book in front of me. Isn't it our job as volunteers to get 
the best possible quality of books so that people who read them will have an 
enjoyable experience?  
   
  What happened is that I told Carrie that the book was incomplete. As a 
result, she took it out of the collection. I corrected the errors on the 
original scan and got it back into the collection by Monday so that people who 
are presently reading it could get a better copy of it. That's All! 
   
  I have had many of my books rejected for being incomplete and a few of my 
books that I was validating taken from me by another validator when my time 
expired and I forgot to renew the book or download the it, again. I know how 
frustrating and madning it feels to work hard on a book and then have something 
wrong with it and then taken away from you after you have spent countless hours 
working on it and thought that you had done a good job. However, think about 
the present situation as a combined effort instead of as a failure for a 
validator. I made improvements on the great validation already present. 
   
  Since the file was no longer in the collection, Carrie allowed me to use the 
present scan and make corrections to it without having to submit it as a BSO 
file. Carrie validated the book quickly in order to make it available to those 
people in the Christian Book Club who want to or who are already in the process 
of reading it. In turn, I wanted you to know that a new, corrected version of 
the file was in the collection. My intention was not to criticise the initial 
validator or scanner. If I have hurt anyone's feelings, I am sorry. I never 
meant to suggest that a totally blind person could not validate a book. 
However, in this case, the validator needed to have access to a print copy, 
perhaps by using the Opticon, if she or he was going to be able to pick up and 
correct all the errors since most of the errors were do to the fact that the 
bottom lines on the pages were not present on the file. 

Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
  Hi all,

Well, well, we're getting somewhere. We aren't going too awfully fast, 
but we're getting somewhere. Barbara, which pages are these, please 
give exact page numbers. If you can do that, that'd be super. Even 
better, if you have a scanner, might you be able to scan those pages?

Ann P.

Original message:
> There were four pages of missing text, two at the beginning and two at 
> the end -- the Acknowledgment pages which were not that important. The 
> rest of the missing text were lines that were cut off at the bottom of 
> the pages and probably were not crucial to the flow of the story. 
> However, the two pages at the beginning were crucial but you might have 
> overlooked the inconsistency in meaning because the story flows without 
> these pages. I can see with the aid of a strong magnifying glass so 
> when something did not make sense, I looked at the print copy and I 
> found the error. Because of these two missing pages, I then checked the 
> first and last word of each page and I found some more errors which the 
> previous validator corrected by putting in the words that she thought 
> were correct in order to make the text sound OK. Other than these few 
> errors, the validation was perfect. She would have not known about the 
> errors that I found unless she looked at a printed copy.
> Barbara

> Sharon wrote:

> Well, that's interesting, because I didn't notice any missing pages or text.
> Sharon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Barbara
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:06 AM
> To: Book Share
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The book for the Christian Book Clug, Second 
> Opinion -- IMPORTANT

> To those of you that are currently reading the book Second Opinion, for 
> the Christian Book Club, a new copy of the file is now available. Even 
> though the old file was rated excellent, it had some pages missing or 
> cut off. I corrected all the errors over the weekend and uploaded it, 
> yesterday. With the help of Carrie's validating efforts, it is now 
> available for all of you Christian Book Clubbers who might still want 
> to read the book in the corrected version.

> Barbara

-- 
Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.portaltutoring.info
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Not all those who wander are lost."

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