[bksvol-discuss] Re: posting here before rejecting books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:25:52 -0700 (PDT)
Indeed, Evan--of course it's an offer open to
everyone. As long as I can obtain the book.
And sometimes, as with E's The Servant's tale, it
turns out that what she had was indeed the last page,
eventhough it didn't seem like it. Ditto a book that
Carrie wsa queried about, though whoever had asked her
forgot about his question. smile.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy, I seem to recall that you had done missing
> page replacement before,
> but is that open to anyone? I rejected a book
> because it was incomplete,
> but it was just missing its last page. If you are
> willing to do that for
> anyone, then I could have gotten the missing page
> and approved the book. As
> far as I could tell, it was perfectly good other
> than that.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:10 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: posting here before
> rejecting books
>
>
> > Hi, Shannon,
> >
> > I agree with everything you said up until where
> you
> > said that if you hadn't liked the book you'd have
> felt
> > within your rights to reject it. Absolutely you'd
> have
> > been within your rights!! BUT--that is exactly the
> > kind of book that I would have enjoyed fixing. I
> love
> > Torey Hayden's books--I've read everything, or
> almost
> > everything, she's written. And I agree that her
> books
> > are definitely valuable editions to the
> collection.
> > It's possible, since she is a popular author with
> > people interested in special ed children that
> someone
> > else would have re-scanned the book. But I could
> have
> > obtained the book from the library; would have
> enjoyed
> > reading and correcting as I went along, like you;
> and
> > could have scanned and valdidated the missing
> pages.
> >
> > In fact, in a situation like that, where you find
> some
> > pages missing, you can ask me, either here or
> > offlist--take my email address, please--to obtain
> the
> > book and scan and validate the missing pages for
> you.
> > If I can't obtain the same edition, like your
> husband,
> > but finding the text before and after I can
> provide
> > the missing text as he did for you.
> >
> > I'm not saying people shouldn't reject books. I'm
> just
> > suggesting that waiting a couple of days before
> doing
> > so and saying here first that they're planning to
> and
> > why, might give someone else a chance to fix it. A
> lot
> > of books, especially those with no page breaks,
> are
> > easier for a sighted person who can get the book
> to
> > fix than for a blind person who doesn't have the
> book.
> > And although people say it's easier to re-scan
> some
> > books than take the time to fix them, I don't know
> how
> > many such books have been rescanned vis-a-vis how
> many
> > have disappeared.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- "Shannon A. Reece" <shazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> AS a validator, I think I can say that part of
> the
> >> problem is that if you've
> >> got a book with tons of scannos and that book
> >> doesn't grab you, it's easier
> >> to reject it instead of trying to fix it up,
> >> especially if it is really full
> >> of errors adn missing pages. I had an absolutely
> >> fabulous book by Torey
> >> Hayden that was full of scannos, mostly extra
> >> characters, but that was so
> >> good that I kept reading and correcting, reading
> and
> >> correcting, and then
> >> marking the book so I could type in the missing
> >> text. then I went to the
> >> library, got the print book from interlibrary
> loan
> >> and my husband, who
> >> didn't have to do this and who had to search to
> find
> >> the text that was
> >> missing because our page numbers didn't match,
> read
> >> the missing text to me
> >> so I could type it in by hand. Sometimes it was
> >> just words. But there were
> >> four places where it was over 2 pages that was
> >> missing and needed to be
> >> typed in. Now had I not liked this book, I feel
> >> that I would have been well
> >> within my rights to reject it because it was
> truly
> >> full of errors. There's
> >> enough traffic on this list as it is without
> having
> >> to post queries about
> >> should I or should I not reject the book. And
> just
> >> because there are ways
> >> and tools to correct these types of things with
> >> K1000 as E. indicated,
> >> doesn't mean that she or anyone else with K1000
> >> would be willing to take
> >> these books and correct them.
> >> If Dan is anything like me when I first started
> out,
> >> I agonized over
> >> everything I did. It's not fun being a new
> >> validator sometimes when you've
> >> got people sending you these short snippy
> sounding
> >> messages as E. did to Dan
> >> which I only saw when I looked down through
> Monica's
> >> post. It bodes us all
> >> to remember that we were all new at this once,
> and
> >> that there are some books
> >> which don't need to have all this time put into
> >> them, especially when you've
> >> got a step1 page that has 400 books on it again
> and
> >> an admin queue which has
> >> books in it from months back! It took me a month
> to
> >> do the Hayden, but to
> >> be fair, I wouldn't have done it if the book
> wasn't
> >> so blasted good.
> >> Shannon
> >> "The world is your garden from which you remove
> >> weeds of doubt and replace
> >> them with seeds of hope."
> >> http://reecespeeces.net/blogs
> >>
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