I would personally feel a book should be rejected if words were missing with
the frequency of an important word for every 2 lines on average, or an
entire line for each page. I don't think 1 letter wrong in a word, or small
words like "the" would count as missing or completely scrambled "important
words". You know there is no rule, but if you found the book extremely
irritating, then reject it. If it was a type of book you would usually
enjoy, and this one was annoying to read, reject. If you liked reading the
book in general, approve. Of course, if the book wasn't something you would
particularly enjoy even in perfect condition, applying these guidelines
won't help at all.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 1:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] When to Reject!!
I am now validating a novel on which I have to decide whether the text is
readable enough or not. The book is all there, I can follow the story,
but there are a lot of words scrambled and missing. Where does one draw
the line between accepting it as a fair book or canning it?
It has been sitting in the pool for a couple of months with no one
touching it. The book is scanned by a frequent contributor though this
particular book doesn't come up to what has been done by this individual
in the past.
I could easily return it to the pool; but this likely would place the book
in limbo for who knows how long?
So, how poor does fair text have to be to be bad text?
