Rather than deleting them all, I'd like to suggest that instead of scanning new books, people who are interested in particular book or genre either rescan or validate and re-submit the Fair books in the collection. There are still re-done (marked with BSO) books in the admin queue already. Cindy --- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! 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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 > > > > > > > > > > > >To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. 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