[bksvol-discuss] Re: books with less than excellent ratings

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:50:34 -0700 (PDT)

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. 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> 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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