Whether a book is of poor enough quality to reject seems a separate
question from length of time the book is kept and then released. Perhaps
you do not have the tools to quickly fix up a book. Those of us with use
of rank spelling can do quickly what it takes people without it much longer
to do. We can fix up a book without reading all the way through. I know
reading all the way through has advantages. But if somebody could leave
notes about a book somewhere and just put it back on step 1 quickly it
would get worked on faster than if it were renewed over and over again only
to be put back on step 1.
If I had a place to comment I might put a book back on step 1 with the
comment "line breaks where they do not belong in the middle of sentences.
Spelling errors where rn tends to replace m in correctly." Then ssomebody
with k1000 can easily take that book and fix it up.
E. At 04:24 PM 9/14/2006, you wrote:
Elizabeth, I see your points and agree with you. I guess I've been guilty of your first example a few because I'd get halfway through a book and couldn't seem to get the errors worked out. Yet the text is mostly legible, and I started thinking that someone else might be able to work them out. Now that I have some experience under my belt, I think I'd just reject these books because a person with a scanner could rescan the book several times faster than a validater could fix everything. During my first six months here, I didn't feel qualified to reject books unless they had pages missing or weren't legible at all.
One such book, in specific, The J.A.P. Chronicles has issues of stray random characters appearing in the middle of sentences. If I enjoyed the plot, combing it wouldn't be so bad. It isn't the kind of book that appeals to me, and the basic routine validation won't really fix this book. It's in Openbook format.
Monica Willyard
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