[bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than excellent ratings
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:03:37 -0700
That's why it's important to make use of the comments feature. The validator
should especially do this as she wlill have seen Bookshare's rating and has the
opportunity to disagree and give her reasons why.
----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 3:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than excellent ratings
Shelly, I think it is because many words in the books are either colloquial
or have unusual spellings and are picked-up by Bookshare as scanos. For
instance, many compound words are flagged as misspelled because the standard
dictionary does not have the words as compound ones but as two separate ones.
Also, often authors play around with words for effect, such as looooked instead
of looked and the unusual spellings are not in the dictionary. This situation
has happened to me a great deal and perhaps, that is why The Wind Dancer was
rejected since I visually checked all of the flagged words and found them to be
correct before I submitted the file. Who knows! Take heart, your books are in
excellent shape despite the Bookshare ratings.
Barbara
"Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sometimes, and you all know how a concious submitter I am, I am a little
shocked by the "rating" my books get sometimes.
Especially if I did the same work on one book which was labeled excellent,
and another book which was well, rated good, but with the same work, same
settings, and same series of books.
Smile, sometimes it is well out of the submitters hands it seems.
Or so I would assume with
Tornadoes
Volcanoes
Foxes
Why Do rabbits Hop?
The last four books I said were "excellent" read through and edited, but
when I got the "congrats notice found them rated only good.
Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI
and Guinevere, Golden lady Guide
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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More than Any other time, When i hold a beloved book in my hand, my
limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill O'Connell"
To:
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 11:48 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than excellent ratings
But that doesn't help us who are looking for a book to validate and trying
to avoid the poor submitters. I think E's idea is wonderful and hopefully
the benefit would be that when poor submitters' books stayed on the step 1
list for a long time, said submitter would get the idea that unless he
submits better scans, his books aren't going to be validated.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pratik Patel"
To:
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than excellent ratings
> While volunteers do not know the identity of the siad Bookshare.org
> Volunteer, the staff have the capability of finding out. through the
> software.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:29 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than excellent ratings
>
> I really like that idea!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E."
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:35 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books with less than excellent ratings
>
>
>> You may notice I notice that books with less than excellent ratings are
>> listed sometimes as coming from "a bookshare volunteer".
>>
>> I respect the volunteer's need to remain anonymous though I frankly fail
>> to quite understand the need. But i am sure I do need things others do
>> not understand. What about giving each "bookshare volunteer" a number.
>> So there might be "bv1" "bv75" and so on. Then feedback can be addressed
>> to say, bv65. Or I might realize that I like the books bv115 scans. I
>> Might decide the books bv110 scans have the same kind of scanos time
>> after
>
>> time. I can then decide if I want to validate the scans of a particular
>> bookshare volunteer. We validators have favorite submitters. We often
>> work in pairs (a submitter and a validator) to make a book come out
>> beautifully.
>>
>> E.
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