[bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than excellent ratings
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:03:30 -0700 (PDT)
I agree with you. The Fair books I've validated are
more accurately poor, and the good books fair.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually, from my experience, Fair should more
> properly be read as Poor.
> Sorry, but that's just my feeling on it. I guess
> you can't have a Poor
> category, though. Who would want to read a book
> with that rating? However,
> truth in advertising demands it, I think.
>
> By 'caveat' I was thinking more along the lines of
> giving people more
> details about what they may be in for if they
> download one of these Fair
> books. But I don't think that option should be
> taken away from people.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:34 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than
> excellent ratings
>
>
> >
> > Evan,
> >
> > Don't you think the designation of Fair is a
> caveat as
> > to quality? smile
> >
> > Evan and Julie, and anyone else--if you're reading
> a
> > book from the collection that's missing words or
> parts
> > of sentences or a page, if you'll let me know the
> book
> > and if I can get it from the library I'd be happy
> to
> > tell you what's missing. Then you can correct it
> and
> > when enjoy the complete book and even, when you've
> > finished reading it, submit it as an improved
> copy.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps Fair books
> >> should come with some kind of caveat about their
> >> quality, but I am
> >> definitely not in favor of deleting them.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:49 PM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less
> than
> >> excellent ratings
> >>
> >>
> >> >I kind of wonder if maybe Carrie wasn't joking
> when
> >> she said delete them
> >> > all? I don't know, but I really didn't take her
> >> seriously when she
> >> > suggested
> >> > deleting them all. Maybe my sense of humor is
> >> further out there than I
> >> > thought it was and I should have taken her
> >> seriously, but I didn't. Take
> >> > care.
> >> > --
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> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Katie Star" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:11 PM
> >> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less
> than
> >> excellent ratings
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > HICarrie and all:-)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > My comment was more not to delete poor quality
> >> books we have but evaluate
> >> > what we are doing now and raise the bar a
> little
> >> to avoid adding to the
> >> > poor
> >> > book numbers.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Katie Hill
> >> >
> >> > Expand your wealth at: www.838gold.com
> >> >
> >> > "Come to the edge"
> >> >
> >> > "We can't; we will fall"
> >> >
> >> > "Come to the edge"
> >> >
> >> > "We can't; We're afraid"
> >> >
> >> > "Come to the edge"
> >> >
> >> > And they came.
> >> >
> >> > And he pushed them.
> >> >
> >> > And they flew.
> >> >
> >> > - Anonomous
> >> >
> >> > _____
> >> >
> >> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> >> Behalf Of Evan Reese
> >> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:33 PM
> >> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less
> than
> >> excellent ratings
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I'm not sanguine about deleting books just
> because
> >> they are in the Fair
> >> > category. If they're in that category, then
> >> people will probably know
> >> > what
> >> > they are in for, and some may still get benefit
> >> from them. Also,
> >> > certainly
> >> > some people have a higher tolerance for quality
> >> problems than others. If
> >> > it
> >> > is a good Fair book, I may still tackle it;
> >> although if it is bad enough I
> >> > may do a rescan. I am actually planning one in
> >> that category for the near
> >> > future. (I'm waiting for my K1000 demo disc
> >> before I start.) But others
> >> > without scanners may have a choice between
> reading
> >> something of lesser
> >> > quality or not reading it at all. Why take
> that
> >> away from them if it is
> >> > not
> >> > necessary?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Unless it is costing money to keep them, I
> don't
> >> see why they shouldn't be
> >> > kept.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> >
> >> > From: Carrie Karnos <mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >
> >> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:53 PM
> >> >
> >> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less
> than
> >> excellent ratings
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Yes, that's exactly what happened. The first
> >> books that started the
> >> > collection were not validated well (probably
> not
> >> at all). Unfortunately a
> >> > huge number of those books were science
> fiction,
> >> so the sci-fi category is
> >> > in pretty bad shape.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > What does everyone think of deleting all of the
> >> fair books in the
> >> > collection? The sci-fi category would take a
> >> large hit, but I don't think
> >> > the other categories would suffer too much. I
> >> think the number of fair
> >> > books is around 1200, out of the 27,000
> (approx)
> >> books in the collection.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Carrie
> >> >
> >> > Katie Star <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > My opinion is... Maybe when bookshare started
> and
> >> when scanning software
> >> > wasn't as good a fair book would have been
> >> acceptable. But with what we
> >> > know
> >> > can be done now, unless it was rare, maybe
> should
> >> be rejected. This could
> >> > be
> >> > something that bookshare can consider as they
> look
> >> at other suggestions
> >> > put
> >> > out this year.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Katie Hill
> >> > Expand your wealth at: www.838gold.com
> >> > "Come to the edge"
> >> >
> >> > "We can't; we will fall"
> >> >
> >> > "Come to the edge"
> >> >
> >> > "We can't; We're afraid"
> >> >
> >> > "Come to the edge"
> >> >
> >> > And they came.
> >> >
> >> > And he pushed them.
> >> >
> >> > And they flew.
> >> >
> >> > - Anonomous
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> >> Behalf Of Julie Morales
> >> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 7:37 PM
> >> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less
> than
> >> excellent ratings
> >> >
> >> > Yes, I've noticed that, and that bothers me! I
> >> mean, I know they're
> >> > not textbooks. I know they may not be worth
> >> putting a lot of work in for
> >> > some, but if they're worth putting on the site,
> >> they're worth making as
> >> > good
> >> >
> >> > as you can make them, or at least that's how I
> >> feel. I happen to like
> >> > those
> >> > types of books and downloading books that are
> >> barely legible, and
> >> > sometimes
> >> > not even that, irritates me to no end! Take
> care.
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> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "E."
> >> > To:
> >> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 6:55 PM
> >> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books with less than
> >> excellent ratings
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The books with less than excellent ratings are
> all
> >> categorized as
> >> > "Christian fiction" or "Christian romance."
> Just
> >> some feedback on the less
> >> > than excellent book question. Draw conclusions
> as
> >> you will.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > At 02:01 PM 7/28/2006, you wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>I was tipped off, as other listers have stated
> on
> >> previous days, by an
> >> >>email which informed me of the acceptance of a
> >> book of mine. Upon going to
> >> >>the new English books page, I did indeed find a
> >> number of new books. In
> >> >>that group, there was an unhealthy handful of
> >> submissions rated fair,
> >> >>maybe half a dozen or so. This seemed like a
> high
> >> percentage to me,
> >> >>considering the capabilities of scanning
> software
> >> these days. Has
> >> >>Bookshare cut down on the number of fair
> >> submissions?
> >> >>
> >> >>Scott
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
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