Thanks for hearing me, folks. Sounds like my little rejection is not singling me out at all, is it. I will try and be more careful about how much I scan, and all. And the suggestion about the Book Quality report. Thanks. I have not ever done that or really was not savvy to know about it or how to do it. But I will follow up and make that report. Makes sense, that unless a report is filed who would know. Reading your posts, I realize more now about the Penguin deal and the many books coming in this way. That is all good. Love to find a book when I want it, and this is becoming more and more the case. The impact is on us who have done these scans and submissions. Curious. So how does this separator thing happen exactly then? the PQ book, is it just delivered as an electronic book? And is it then evaluated somehow for its quality? Or is it put right in to the collection? It is not scanned, right? It is not my turf, I am just curious. You folks know a lot more than me. Rik From: Judy s. Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 5:58 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a book submission rejected, poor me Hi Cindy, A volunteer BSO can't replace a publisher quality book. In the cases where a volunteer submitted book of a title that is already in the collection, or enters the collection, as a PQ, and has something it like image descriptions or is a totally different edition that is a substantive difference in terms of content, it can co-exist in the collection with the PQ book. If a PQ book lacks navigation, then members or volunteers need to submit a book quality report on the title and it will get fixed. Judy s. Follow me on Twitter at QuackersNCheese On 4/30/2014 6:38 PM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote: I agree with Judy and Christina. Rik, if you file a quality report, maybe you can ask Madeleine to accept your book as a BSO to replace the PQ copy. And Christina, is the PQ copy of the book you and your proofer did perfect? So often, I gather they are not -- especially, I suspect they lack proper navigation formatting. So maybe your book can also replace the PQ copy and you and your partner can get your credits. Good luck to both of you. Cindy On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, Judy. Can you at least get the credits for it since it was in the approval queue? Christina From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s. Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:54 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a book submission rejected, poor me Hey, Rik, I feel your pain. Four books that I was in the middle of working on with another volunteer (one already waiting for approval) showed up as publisher quality books yesterday. Wah! Oh well, none of us could have known (including Bookshare) that Penguin would cave and make available almost immediately tens of thousands of books. But it is frustrating to lose the time. I really encourage you to file a book quality report on the publisher quality book regarding the separation of the first letter of each chapter from the rest of the word. If we don't file those reports, these things don't get fixed and the conversion that Bookshare does of PQ books doesn't improve over time. Judy s. Follow me on Twitter at QuackersNCheese On 4/30/2014 3:27 PM, ohio1803@xxxxx wrote: I am sad, but it is my own fault, I guess. My submission of Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times by Ralph Stanley and Eddie Dean, published in 2009. Dang it if I didn't have some bad luck. I had been wanting to read this, I had been watching for it on Bookshare. I get a friend to loan me his copy, and last week I check the Bookshare collection just before I start to scan it. I submitted it on Sunday. It was downloaded for proofing on Monday. And it was rejected on Tuesday. What? Sure enough, the proofreader replies to my email query, the reason was it was already in the collection. It had been added on April 23! Ain't that just like a sad and lonesome old song? Anyhow, not to whine all too sorrowful. Any suggestions what I can improve so as not to have more rejection anxiety? But .... Here is also what I wanted to mention. My scan had a fix in it that the copy of this book now in the Bookshare collection that I just downloaded does NOT. At the beginning of the text in EACH chapter, the enlarged font of the first word in the paragraph is separated from that first word. Example from Chapter Seven.... W e were really on a roll.We had a My submission from my scan fixed that. Maybe it does not matter that much. But as a reader of many books, and a long time big lover and believer in Bookshare, I want to pass along that. And ask that it me not so currently an accepted practice in these publisher supplied books. I'll try to avoid being rejected. I'll keep on scanning. But wow, my 14-15 hours last week, well I have a copy of my own to read anyhow. Thanks. Richard (Rik) James d28rik@xxxxxxx 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.