[bksvol-discuss] Re: questions from a first time validator
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:53:12 -0400
Kim,
Welcome to the club and I hope you enjoy validating.
The hold it for should be respected as there is a reason a specific person has
requested that hold which the scanner agrees with.
As there is a wide range in the quality and accuracy of scans many of us, even
the most careful of scanners, hope you take the time to read every page but I
do understand that once you get used to the work of certain scanners, and if
you know who the scanners are, you may settle for doing a spell-check but to do
that means you know the idiosyncrasies of the author's spelling and can hit the
ignore button when the misspelling is the author's and not the scan's. We aim
for only excellent books if at all possible and a validater can reject a book
that is fair or even good. If a book is marked excellent but a validater does
not find it so you can return if for someone else to try to validate it who is
more familiar with the author or explain why you find it less that excellent.
We scanners rely on validaters to catch any mistakes we make and hope you care
enough to look for them.
Amy
omsm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Stenger" <kstenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 5:22 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] questions from a first time validator
> Hi everyone! I just started volunteering here and am working on validating
> my first set of books. I am wondering if it's necessary to read the book
> page by page. I feel like it's the only way to truly find all errors, but
> it's also not very efficient. Please keep in mind that I am sighted, so
> tips from other sighted validators, on this topic or on validating in
> general, would be especially appreciated. This is a whole new world for me,
> but I really want to do it well!
>
> Also, if a book has "Hold for (name)" in its title on the download page,
> does this mean it is meant for a specific validator?
>
> Looking forward to hearing from all of you.
>
> Thanks, Kim
>
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