[bksvol-discuss] Re: yes, let's get tough.

  • From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:15:06 -0500

I just take mine out as I get to each page.


Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "maithe007" <maithe007@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: yes, let's get tough.


Robert,

I have a question about the headers.  I am afraid to use the 
header/footer
stripper in my Openbook...should I be doing this with all my scans?  I 
am
afraid I will distort the text.  Thanks in advance.

Maithe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "robert tweedy" <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: yes, let's get tough.


> Thanks Monica you explained it better than I did. I have seen a few 
> books
> with the headers still in them and there have a lot of books with 
> errors
> in them but I am not on anyone's case or anything All of us that 
> includes
> scanners have to do a better job.
> Skype contact bobwichitaks phone 316-524-5454
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:55 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: yes, let's get tough.
>
>
>> Hi, Mickey. I think people are basically saying that since we're 
>> being
>> paid more credit to validate, let's do a good job and not just pass
>> stuff through the system. In the past, some people would validate a
>> bunch of books to earn a year's membership. They didn't spend much 
>> time
>> in individual books because they knew they'd have had to validate 
>> 100
>> books in a year to earn next year's membership. That has changed 
>> now. I
>> could be wrong, but I think people are just encouraging each other 
>> to
>> raise the bar of what's acceptable validation. You have always been 
>> a
>> careful validater, Mickey, so I don't see that this would change a 
>> lot
>> for you. (smile) You taught me a lot about being a good validater. 
>> I
>> used to be the kind of person who would just get a book and read 
>> it,
>> ignoring small errors and only stopping if I literally couldn't 
>> read
>> something. That has changed, and you, Sue, Katie, and Elizabeth are 
>> all
>> responsible for helping me make that change. It didn't happen 
>> overnight
>> or even over a period of weeks. It took me a good year or more to
>> finally understand and then incorporate careful validation 
>> principles
>> into how I do things. It's taken another year for me to refine the
>> process, to use a system to do these things quickly and 
>> comfortably.
>>
>> Monica Willyard
>>
>>
>> mickey wrote:
>>> I think I'll do pretty much the same job I've always done, because 
>>> I
>>> think all of us are doing our best. I don't know that we should 
>>> change
>>> our criteria for accepting or rejecting a book. We validators work
>>> hard to make the best product we can. Because we've changed our 
>>> rate
>>> of pay, I don't quite understand what that has to do with the
>>> scanners. Maybe I'm missing something.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mickey Prahin
>>>
>>
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