[bksvol-discuss] Re: submission with poor quality rating
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:43:52 -0700 (PDT)
Jake,
I have a feeling you meant this for me more than
Elizabeth. She's very good about rejecting books of
poor quality. smile
Cindy
--- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi E,
> This is a little late response here.
>
> You mention "poor" books.
>
> If a book is so dismal at the time of submission you
> would call it poor
> rather than fair, then please consider rejecting the
> book. A valid reason
> for rejection is that the book's quality is too low.
>
> I say this with a few things in mind.
>
> Yes, you can spend hours attempting to fix a poor
> book, when it would in
> reality probably be quicker to rescan the book
> properly and do a cleanup on
> it.
>
> If this is truly the case, please reject.
>
> We have more than 400 books on the step 1 page, and
> we need to make
> decisions about them and if that means we reject
> rather than spending 10
> hours cleaning up a 200 page book, then so be it.
>
> Now, I'm not saying let's reject everything, that's
> not what I want to imply
> at all. Just consider how many good or excellent
> books you could validate in
> the time it took you to validate that poor book.
> That would help the quality
> of books and quantity of books, both.
>
> A thought on people releasing books.
>
> Yes, release a book if you think all it needs are
> page breaks, and someone
> with a print copy can furnish those, or something
> similar. However, if you'd
> call it poor, not even fair, don't make another
> volunteer do what you just
> did because you released rather than rejected.
>
> The list in general should also remember not to jump
> on people who mention
> that they've rejected a book. Me, I rejected 5 the
> other day. Now don't
> worry, two were books already in the collection at a
> better quality level, 1
> was a proprietary e-book, 1 was a 700+ page textbook
> without page breaks
> (computer code), and the last was submitted in the
> wrong format. All of
> those were valid rejections, but I didn't bother to
> mention them to the list
> because of the possible uproar that might occur.
>
> Finally, please remember that not every book is
> worth saving if it's in
> really bad shape. Somebody who is interested someday
> will rescan it.
> Remember how many books of better quality you could
> work on in the meantime
> rather than work on a poor book.
>
> Let's start chopping at the step 1 list and see
> about shortening it.
>
> Jake
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 6:55 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submission with poor
> quality rating
>
>
> >I notice that bookshare still accepts books
> submitted which have poor
> >quality ratings. Given the number of books on
> bookshare, is this policy
> >going to continue into the future? I knew
> bookshare is interested in the
> >sheer number of books available to subscribers. I
> also know from my
> >experience as a validator the amazingly long time
> necessary to get a fair
> >book into any kind of decent condition. Is it a
> good idea to continue to
> >enlarge the step 1 list with these books and to
> give the validator only
> >fifty cents for correcting them? For instance,
> could a submitter get a
> >different rate depending on the rating given to the
> book at time of
> >submission? Alternatively, could a validator get
> special credit for fixing
> >up a "poor" quality book?
> >
> > E.
> > At 04:36 AM 6/17/2006, you wrote:
> >
> >>I've requested Blood Royal; I,Elizabeth; the Six
> Wives
> >>of Henry VIII; Winter Queen, and Memoirs of
> Cleopatra
> >>(over 900 pages) but I have a lot of other things
> to
> >>do, so if someone else wants them, you can have
> them.
> >>
> >>Cindy
> >>
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