Definitely. We are always learning, and I know my first submissions were bad. I know as the technology improves, I am also demanding more from it. Smile. 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: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:13 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanners' feelings Hi, Shelley. As well you should take pride in it! <smile> I, too, take pride in my submissions when I know they've made it onto the site and that they're of good quality. Of course, all of our first submissions are probably a bit rusty, but we live and learn, don't we? <smile> Take care. Julie Morales Children are fragile. Handle with prayer. --Unknown ----- 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 I joined the 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 pride in that 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 every book I validate, I learn more, but also have more questions. Today I'm not asking technical 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, do you worry how long it will be before someone takes it to validate? Do you worry if the validator will sit on it forever or make mistakes when uploading so the book doesn't get approved and you've done all of that work for nothing? All of the booksbut one that I've uploaded so far have been approved, but I feel terrible about the one that got away. It was Echoes, a book the scanner kindly allowed me to validate. It was over 450 pages long and I took a ton 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 confidence and understanding of the process, I will try again and when I get it right, the whole world will hear about it. Back to my question. I've sampled, but not kept, some random books from the step one page.A few have looked so accurate, that I thought I might be able to validate without a print counterpart. Others are well done, but contain some puzzles I'm not comfortable trying to correct without a print book for exact 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, but uploading makes 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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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