aidee, a book with that many problems should not have been rated
Excellent;perhaps good (we're told a book doesn't have to be perfect
to be accepted;but I'd have rated it fair or poor; Scanners are the
first to give a book a rating; then we proofers weigh in; I usually
take books from the checkout list that have a good or lower rating
because I'm sighted and a can compare the file with tthe print book
and can fix problems that exist; I think it's only fair tthat I
leave books rated Excellent for other proofers who aren't as fortunate
as I; however, maybe I should read te history of books rated Excellent
and see if the scanner mentions problems that exist such as the
punctuation you mention; I have replied to some scanners that
questioned whether they should submit something that had problems
(usually they've been formatting ones to go ahead buy mention in the
Comments section that problems exist that need to be fixed by a
proofer
On 2/28/17, Aidee Campa <aidee.campa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello All:
This is Aidee, one of the proofreaders. I have a question for all of you. I
was wondering if anyone could explain to me how book quality is determined?
I know that "publisher quality" is used to designate books that have been
submitted by BookShare's publisher partners, and, I'm guessing, any authors
that contribute their books. But what about the other quality ranks, like
"excellent," "good," and so on? If you can point me to somewhere that
already has an answer, I'd appreciate it. I just recently submitted a
quality report on a book with a lot of punctuation issues throughout the
book and some other issues that apparently only show up in the BRF file of
the book, and I've been told that these issues won't be fixed. However, the
book's quality is listed as excellent, which made me wonder how that kind
of
designation is determined.
Thank you all so much for your time and help. Hopefully my question makes
sense.
