Hi Charlene:
You still have to evaluate some things on an individuat basis. If there are a lot of medical or scientific terms then the percentage will be very low because those words aren't in the spelling dictionary. Also, if an author has deliberately used bad English or invented words combined words and such, as a part of the way they have chosen to write their book, then the percentage is going to be low and it isn't right to make corrections in those situations. To just discard a book absed on that percentage isn't a very good idea. Further evaluation must be done to check for the reson why the percentage might be lower than 99%.
Charlene
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 4:36 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: reward for upgrading software
Take this as a personal opinion. I think anything below 98% should be poor and 98 to 99 % fair. These are doable percentages with today's software. Anything with 99% and above can be excellent. But, for instance, The Abortion Myth was listed as being "excellent" when submitted. It had a rating of 97.5 and contained 228 single occurances of words which I could not figure out. I got it up to 99.5 by the time I sent it in for the new books page. That last 5% was made up of the 228 individual one-time occurances of words. I did not reject it outright since it is not a light reading piece of fiction. If it were, I would have rejected.
The real issue here which noone is interested in addressing because it is personally messy is that many of these poor scans come from repeat folks. If bookshare staff does nothing to curb it, we validators are going to have to send a stronger message by rejecting books.
At 05:06 AM 9/17/2005, you wrote:
Elizabeth and others
I want your feedback on something. Keeping in mind the caveats mentioned about ranked spelling, below what threshhold would a book become fair and below what number would a so-called fair book become poor and hence rejected?
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