Not usually. Hold for are put on books if the submitter has a particular validator in mind. I will do it for books I know someone will read, or who have requested.
If I don't have anyone then I won't put a hold. But if you want any of mine I will be glad to put holds on them. Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.comThe people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence;
rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness.The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Reggie & Brooks" <regandlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 3:37 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: where are all the submits
Curiously everyone, although I have another book with a hold so don't worry, how does just about every book get a hold for? I think we as volunteers are only supposed to have 2 holds, but like E. I wonder how we have gotten downto only being able to validate books on alcoholism and philosophy. Not a problem at the moment, but once I get through the books I have? How does a book get a hold? Do they all go through Pavi? Reggie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 3:13 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: where are all the submitsI am not personally interested in proofing books about alcohol and substanceabuse or group psychology or books about naval warfare at this time. That does cut down on my choices quite a lot. E. At 03:05 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote:Hi Elizabeth and others. If you look at the Books In Processing list, you'll see that there are around 160 books checked out for proofreading. Many of those are fiction, and that leads me to believe that we have an active community of proofreaders who work on books very shortly after they are submitted. I think what's going on is that we have shifted in our balance so that we have more proofreaders than submitters. I also think submitters are doing more careful proofreading on our submits, so we're putting up fewer books, but the books can also beproofread more quickly by the proofreader.Another factor that may be slowing down the flow of new books is that some of our volunteers who are not on this list haven't learned how to submit books on the new site yet. Finally, another factor is that several of our more prolific submitters are now working for Bookshare. All of these factors seem to have changed the balance for us. For several years, the mantra was that submitters needed to stop scanning and help with proofreading. We started doing that, and several of us tried to switch hit to play both roles. Now the word needs to get out that submitters can safely go back to submitting books. I dislike working as a proofreader with a passion, but it's taking me awhile to get back into submitting mode because I have three books I have to finishproofreading.Then I plan to quit and go back to scanning and cleaning up my own books so I can submit them. There is still plenty of important and honorable work for proofreaders to do right now. There were 111 books awaiting proofreading when I looked at the list. Some of the nonfiction books awaiting approval are short, and it would be cool if some of our proofreaders would be willing to take on just one of them. You can see the page count on a book before checking it out, and that makes it easy to find shorter ones. No one has to do them, and I think it's a good thing to work on books that interest us when those are available to us. On the other hand, the nonfiction books do have to be processed, either approved or rejected, by someone from the volunteers or staff. I have two nonfictionbooks checked out right now because I want to do my part.To me, working on books that interest me is like enjoying flowers and fresh produce from a garden. I'd rather do that all the time. Processing some types of nonfiction books is more work, like pulling weeds or plowing and preparing soil. It's not as much fun, but it needs to be done to make the Bookshare system work well for everyone. If those who are willing would take just one book from the check out list, we could get those books approved and go back to doing things that we find more exciting. For me, that's scanning books. For someone else, that may be proofreading science fiction or mysteries. Monica WillyardTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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.
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