Let's keep this conversation honest by saying something about the
submitter's responsibilities as well as those of the validator's.
Submitters make five times the credit that I do as a validator. I
spend a great deal of time fixing up submits which frankly should
have been fixed up by submitters or, with good use of software,
never should have occurred. Submitters need to do better work in some cases.
E.
At 03:30 AM 11/1/2006, you wrote:
I can see how using Braille would point out the flaws in a
book. Speech is far more forgiving in that department. That
said, I believe that submitters have the right to have their books
processed in a timely fashion if they comply with Bookshare's
submission requirements. Since Bookshare allows good rated
submissions to be accepted, it leaves validaters with the critical
choice of determining the fate of those books. I understand your
commitment to quality. The thing is that if we were honest with
ourselves, how many of us are interested enough in corporate
finance to validate books about it? Is the submitter of such a
book worthy of less attention because he has chosen a subject that
doesn't capture our interest? Our volunteer base is small compared
to the membership base. Is it fair to them that we keep books in
pergatory for a year or more because we have stringent standards
beyond those of Bookshare itself and impose those standards on
books in the step 1 area? To say that one should only validate
what one likes in order to produce maximum quality imposes a tacit
policy of censorship, skewing the content of the collection toward
books validaters enjoy. This undercuts the will and efforts of
the submitters and possibly that of the Bookshare membership as
well if they have requested that certain titles be
scanned. Further, I would submit that many Bookshare users would
prefer to have access to a book rated good and to have the choice
of whether or not they will read it. To me, this position against
submission of books rated as good is objectionable, and I am
beginning to feel frustrated when the same people bring up this
issue from time to time but do little to present a practical
solution that would protect the interests of submitters.
Our over all trend is toward scans rated as excellent, and that is
a wonderful thing. Some of our submitters are getting credits
that they actually earned last year, and I think that is a good
thing too. I would like to see more people celebrating the fact
that these books have been dealt with and that our step 1 queue is
much smaller and more current. I would also like to see people
with an eye for detail pitch in and help process these older
books, whether that means fixing them up or rejecting them if they
do not meet Bookshare's requirements.
Monica Willyard
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