[bksvol-discuss] Re: poor rated books
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:14:47 -0400
I think of "lots of errors . . ." as listening to classical music over
shortwave. I hope I don't miss an important moment, key change, or the
like, but I can figure out--interpolate--what's missing to some extent.
Now, it's worth saying that I don't listen to music over shortwave unless
I'm killing time and am pretty desperate.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: poor rated books
> Not all fair rated books are fair. Put enough dialect slang and/or foreign
words into a book, and what would have been a good rating can easily become
fair. Also, if you submit a book and forget to change the default
> rating, its rated fair. While I understand and share your frustration with
books that are full of garbled text, missing words and the like, its worth
noting that there are sometimes books that are unjustifiably rated fair. If
you
> download one and it turns out to have earned its rating, you can always
nuke it. I still have problems with the idea of lots of errors and legible
throughout. To me, those are not compatible concepts.
> mary
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