I for myself strip the headers as I go. I've notice though if we keep the
headers at the top of the page though, there is a lot of extra junk that
needs to be deletted.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:12 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: backlog of books on the step 1 page
I too think it would be a very good idea to have the automated quality checker run on books when they are first submitted. We wouldn't get quite as many mislabled books that way, and validators would know whether they should really tackal a submitted book without submitter comments.
I also wondered if the automated content checker could at some time tell us how many words it finds in each category, E.G. how many violent words, how many sexual words, and how many profane words. Of course it would be wrong some of the time, but that would give people a little more information. It would be nice if that rating could go on the book information page, so adults could make value judgements for themselves about what they want to read.
I'm also giving my vote for the removal of the over zealous page header stripper. The biggest quality improvement bookshare could make would be to get rid of it and keep the navigation tools that books naturally come with when they have page numbers and chapter titles and numbers. I see no point in having page breaks when that stuff is not retained, and if I ever need a text book again I am far more likely to scan it for myself rather than use a copy that is already on bookshare until that problem is solved. The way a book can be used if it is scanned properly and not damaged by conversion and stripping is amazing, and I've become spoiled with that. As it is we might as well strip the table of contents of books before they are put in the collection.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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