[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating books you hate
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:29:28 -0800 (PST)
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Roger Lo ran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Roger Lo ran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating books you hate
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 9:16 PM
> I certainly hope the system doesn't
> automatically reject a book just for hanging around on the
> checkout list for a long time. If you don't like a book I
> suppose you just release it and it might assuage your guilt
> a bit if you told us which one it is and talked up some of
> the good points it has so that someone else will take it. I'll take it nut
> not until I finish several other books in my pile.
>
>
> _ _ _
>
> "I believe in recognizing every human being as a human
> being, neither white,
> black, brown nor red. When you are dealing with humanity as
> one family,
> there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's
> just one human
> being marrying another human being, or one human being
> living around and
> with another human being.... The worst form of a human
> being, I believe, is
> one who judges another human being by the color of his
> skin."
> Malcolm X
>
> The Militant:
> http://www.themilitant.com
> Pathfinder Press:
> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Curry"
> <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:08 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validating books you hate
>
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > Not owning a scanner, I've been dipping into
> validating books. Thankfully, the ones I've picked so far
> have been good scans and generally easy to work with.
> >
> > However, recently I checked out a book that had been
> awaiting validation since early December. All was going
> well--the scan looked awesome and I was able to fix a few
> formatting issues. But I couldn't stand it. The writing was
> awful, the dialogue contrived, and after stopping and
> starting it three times, I finally gave up in despair and
> released it for someone else.
> >
> > Does anyone else ever have this problem? And now I
> have awful validator guilt. I mean, it's been up since early
> December, and the poor submitter probably really wants
> his/her credits since s/he worked really hard at
> scanning the book.
> >
> > So I guess my question is... how long do books sit
> unloved and unvalidated before someone from Bookshare does
> it or the system automatically rejects them? And am I the
> only one that suffers from this insane guilt? (OK...
> probably I am, but hey, what's the Internet for if not for
> airing our neuroses in public?)
> >
> > Shannon
> > Who is off to find a book she will hopefully like
> more
> >
> >
> >
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