Hi Laura Ann, I have great respect for your work. I have validated some of your submissions and you are one of the people for whom I enjoy validating. I feel sure you gave the book your very best. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Laura Ann Grymes, LMT To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:20 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: friends don't let friends date Jason The book is excellent quality except that one page. So it is definietly readable and I think turned out well. Its not perfect but I appreciate Carrie's help and feel like it is good quality. Thanks MOnica for your kind words about my validating. I enjoy volinteering here and a quality job is very important to me. Laura Ann At 05:23 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote: Hi, Jackie. In general, I agree with you. I'm glad people are looking out for quality on Bookshare and are working hard to improve it. However, I don't know if you've considered the issues the submitter may have faced as well. With a book like this that has Spanish, odd dialect, and street slang in it, I'm not sure that the OCR process would work as well to begin with. I don't know the submitter well and am speaking from my experience with scanning other books similar to this. There are some pages where the OCR software gets mixed up by English and Spanish on the same page and ends up making a mess. I have had to ask my daughter to type in pages like this because no amount of rescanning makes it better. I'm lucky to have a sighted family to help me. Some submitters don't have that option. It would make volunteering easier if people made it possible to contact them with questions though. in this instance, Laura Ann got direction from Bookshare, and that staff member was involved in looking at the final product. The staff seems to have decided that the book had merrit enough to be made available. Sometimes a validater has to make a tough call when a book is readable but can't be made perfect. Laura Ann has validated several of my books, and I know her to be a careful person who follows the volunteer manual closely. She agonized over this book, wanting to do the right thing. Maybe one of us who scan books will find a copy and can do a BSO soon. -- Monica Willyard Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. Laura Ann Grymes, LMT Licensed Massage Therapist Wellness massage with an agape touch! 979-204-9393