Gary, I don't currently have a subscription, but hope to have one in a couple of weeks. If no one has had a chance to compare books for you by then, I'll be glad to download them and tell you what K1000's Ranked Spelling shows. I didn't offer before, because I thought someone else might do it, so you wouldn't have to wait. I could get a subscription right now, as I'm only $1 short, but I'd rather have the incentive to finish cleaning up one of my books and submitting it. If I don't hear anything on the list, I'll check with you when I earn my subscription, and see if you still need any book comparisons. Paula ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Petraccaro To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 5:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: fair books and "BSO" Then, it looks as if this has been a misunderstanding. I never saw your message and I sent mine out at least three times. I think that's more than considerate of me for BookShare. Since we've had all this traffic about the mischaracterization of some ratings, I thought I should ask before sending a book and that's what I did. To be clear, I scan my books either as favors, because of a local bookclub, or because I have an interest. I can't think of a good reason to put those off until I get a subscription which may never happen. Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:02 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: fair books and "BSO" Wouldn't it make more sense to scan some stuff that isn't on bookshare and wait until you get a subscription to read what already is in the collection? The whole idea of bookshare is to not duplicate scanning effort. It isn't vary nice to waste the time of validators who must check duplicates to see if they are better quality than what is in the collection. They don't even get credit for that task when the duplicate is not any better than the one in the collection. It's fine to submit something again when you know the current copy is not satisfactory, but otherwise please don't. Also remember those numbers we were given about the cost of processing each book. We don't want to process any one title more times than necessary. Maybe you didn't believe me because it was to my benefit to say so, but I have already written to this list to tell you that Mrs. Pollifax Innocent Tourist was a book I scanned and I edit obsessively before submitting. If the book is damaged I would like someone to let me know, but still it would be unlikely that it could be improved very much because the conversion process would have to be the culprit if there were more than a few errors in it. Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:59 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: fair books and "BSO" I have several books that I'm going to scan for myself. Some are already on BookShare. How can I tell what condition they're in or should I just put up what I've done and let someone else worry about that? To start with, for example, I've got Mrs. Polifax, Innocent Tourist and Slander by Ann Coulter. I'm on page 80 of Slander. Thanks. Original Message ----- From: Rui To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:37 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] fair books and "BSO" Hello: This is a repost of a message i wrote on June 30 in reference to the "BSO" flag. Good morning everyone: A new copy of the Fair book list has been generated. It can be found on BookshareScans. Now, in order to keep things sane for Mr. Galindo, we need to follow a couple of rules. Otherwise he'll go crazy, resign from Bookshare and take a 7 dollar an hour job guiding drunk tourists to the nearest legal brothel near Los Vegas. Rule #1, If you are going to do some editing of the original scan, when you upload the book, please change the title to BSO <title> e.g BSO The Catcher in the Rye This will be a flag to Mr. Galindo that this is an intensional resubmit of a book already on bookshare. It will be up to Mr. Galindo to remove the BSO before he approves the title, otherwise he shall receive a flogging and be read the complete and unabridged works of Aloysius Q. Schmaltzenstein Gavronsky Rule #2, If you download a fair book and realize that a complete rescan would serve the Bookshare community better then an attempted edit of the original, you are to request Mr. Galindo to place that book on the step 1 page in order for you to download the title and have it to your credit. By following these rules you will make me and Mr. Gallindo much happier and truly be worthy of the title "gentle people." If you have questions, please e-mail me "off-list." goldWave@xxxxxxx -- Rui BookshareScans http://members.cox.net/booksharescans ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Hovas To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:00 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: plan to scan Jill, BSO stands for Book Share Org or Bookshare.Org. Some people have said that you should put BSO in front of books which need special attention, like replacements for books which are not rated Excellent. Since I Haven't heard any of the staff say to do that, I asked Gustavo if that is the way he likes to handle those types of books back in July, but he never answered my message. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:30 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] plan to scan From the fair book list I plan to scan East of the Mountains by David Guterson. Also can someone tell me what BSO in front of some books stands for? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 8/26/2005