[bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
- From: "Rui Cabral" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:50:47 -0400
Hi Cindy:
you stated:
As I see it, there's always the danger that a rejected
book will not get rescanned and thus will never get
into the collection, and since I have the time and
will to fix books, I'd rather do that.
-- End of quote
That is exactly what i'm trying to avoid with the bookshare scans page. For
those of you who have not seen it yet.
It contains the following:
a list of books that people are in the process of scanning, a list of books
that are already on bookshare which people stated need a rescan,
and a list of books that were rejected (usually due to quality but not
always) which also need a scan.
I keep these lists updated to within 24 hours of when i receive the info,
(it's usually more updated then that)
I encourage everyone to check the page out and also to contribute to it as
you scan, reject, etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 5:10 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
> Mike, what is the title? This sounds like the kind of
> book people reject and suggest be rescanned, but on
> the other hand, it's the kind of book I take and fix,
> if I can get the book out of the library. I'm doing
> that now with Hanta Yo -- I'm really enjoying the book
> and don't mind putting sentences where they belong,
> correcting scrambled words, etc. I've fixed messed-up
> books that I haven't enjoyed reading, but I don't
> think I'm going to do that any more, i.e., I'll
> download them and see if I enjoy them or learn from
> them (like Chuang Tzu) or how much work is involved
> and then I'll either reject of fix the book.
>
> As I see it, there's always the danger that a rejected
> book will not get rescanned and thus will never get
> into the collection, and since I have the time and
> will to fix books, I'd rather do that.
>
> Let me know, either here or directly, when you release
> it and what the title is. I'm assuming it's rtf, txt
> or word and I can download it and get it into readable
> form.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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