Dear Tiffany,
Always With Love,
I try to make my books as perfect as possible before submitting, and I look
at them even closer when validating. . All of my books but one have been
ranked excellent, with at least 99 percent spelled correctly,and that little
1 percent is usually due to proper nouns or dialect. The one thing which
frustrates me is several times my books have been replaced, according to the
email due to an improvement to quality, but when I look at them they all
have been to lower quality. Sometimes I feel why am I putting all these
hours and hours into prevalidating a book if it is just going to be replaced
anyways. And no, it's not that someone took my book and accidentally made it
worse when trying the opposite, but they are usually whole other scans of
different editions that have not nearly been looked over.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 12:15 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanners' feelings
I take pride in my submissions, and I hate to admit it, but before Ijoinedinthe volunteer pool I didn't really care about the quality.
But now... smile.
I try to et excellent books and when I get a "good" rating, I want to know
why.
Smile.
I guess the rejections that bug me the most are the ones where I know it isn't right, or there wasn't any reason.
Then it is frustrating.
Smile.
But I haven't gotten very many rejections and each book I submit I take pride in knowing it is available in an accessible format.
My goal for this year was 500 books on the site from me. I am one authorization shy of that goal as of yesterday. smile, and I take pridebookthat too.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com
Dog ownership is like a rainbow. Puppies are the joy at one end. Old dogs are the treasure at the other. Carolyn Alexander
----- Original Message ----- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] scanners' feelings
Dear Volunteers,
So far, as a volunteer, my contribution has been validating. With everyI validate, I learn more, but also have more questions. Today I'm notaskingyoutechnical questions. I want to learn more about how those of you who scan books feel about your submissions.
When you take time to scan a book and place it on the step one page, doworry how long it will be before someone takes it to validate? Do youworryif the validator will sit on it forever or make mistakes when uploading sonothing?
the book doesn't get approved and you've done all of that work forI
All of the booksbut one that I've uploaded so far have been approved, butfeel terrible about the one that got away. It was Echoes, a book thescannerkindly allowed me to validate. It was over 450 pages long and I took a tonand
of hours checking it word by word.
I'm more experienced, now, and probably would know how to upload it correctly. I haven't given up on it yet. Now that I have more confidenceunderstanding of the process, I will try again and when I get it right,thethewhole world will hear about it.
Back to my question. I've sampled, but not kept, some random books fromstep one page.A few have looked so accurate, that I thought I might beableto validate without a print counterpart. Others are well done, but containfor
some puzzles I'm not comfortable trying to correct without a print bookuploadingexact checking.
I read books from the collection for pleasure and, while I'm patient with
the ones which have numerous errors or format quirks, the accurate copies
are a joy. My goal is to make the ones I validate a pleasure to read in as
many kinds of formats as possible.
As usual, I'm rambling in various directions, but, back to my original question. Do any of you scanners have validation or approval anxiety?
I uploaded a book today. Wish it luck. Two more are completed, butofmakes me a bit nervous because I know if I goof up in that process, I can put the book's approval at risk.
Always With Love,
Lissi
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