[bksvol-discuss] Re: please more submits so I can proof read
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- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:18:36 -0700 (PDT)
Jamie if you want to take Portraits of Valor go ahead--It's a big, heavy
book--literally, not in content. I only did a few pages before my little stroke
but it is interesting reading. I did some brief descriptions ofphotos but it
isn't at all necessary--as you will see--
Did you see the requests for sighted proofers a while back? I volunteered but
if you want to take them feel free. They'd probably get into the collection
faster if you did them
Cindy
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--- On Sun, 3/15/09, Jamie Yates <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jamie Yates <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: please more submits so I can proof read
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 5:41 PM
> I used to love the system where a
> person could just browse the step 1 list and choose a book
> but that doesn't seem to be working anymore, so I would
> prefer, too, to have a specific person I could do a
> "hold for" when I submit. But not every book seems
> to have an interested proofreader. That's the only
> reason I was thinking that if you did a "hold for
> Reader" that at least a person who is going to read it
> would take it. I see that the 20 minute proofreader
> doesn't take the books I put up with holds, so at least
> that person respects the holds.
>
>
> Of course, it may not work and if it does work it may
> not work for long.
>
> Everyone who knows me knows I do NOT read every word
> of every book I submit. I do check the scan as it OCRs and I
> do page through the file but I know that's not enough to
> catch every error and there is no good way for Bookshare to
> say you haven't spent enough time working on this
> proofread because then the person could just hang onto the
> file for a couple more hours and then upload it
> anyway.
>
>
> Without the requirement that you have to read the
> proofread, I don't think there is a good solution but
> maybe we can come up with something, anything, as a work
> around?
>
>
> --
> Jamie in Michigan
> Currently Reading: Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million
> by Daniel Mendelsohn
> www.michrxtech.com/books.html
>
>
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