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

  • From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:46:08 -0400

Um, that's exactly what I would like to ask.  Frankly some of us have been
saying that we need to reject books that are extremely poorly scanned for
couple of years.  Now that validators will receive additional credit might
lead some scanners to argue the exact opposite.  I'm not suggesting that
Bookshare should not go ahead and give $2.50 per validation but I'm not
exactly certain about the connection between these two issues.  Regardless
of the $2.50 credit, book quality should always be kept in mind.

 

Pratik

 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:32 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: yes, let's get tough.

 

I don't get it; why do you think validators should get tougher because they
are now being paid more?  Don't mean to be dense, but don't get it.

 

Cat Lover Lori

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Jim <mailto:jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:28 PM

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

 

Hi listers,

Since bookshare has seen fit to raise credit for validators, we should get
tough.

I was just up on the step one page, and the first two books I looked at,
were shown to be fair with many errors. 

My suggestion is this. If you know a book is fair with many errors, why are
you submitting it at all? If I get a book like that, chances are, I'm likely
to reject it. If you can't check your scans, clean them up and make them
good, then don't do it. Sure, I have submitted books that weren't good, and
I had to learn a lot of things, and I understand that. When you first start
out you mess up. I understand that, but come on, some of these books weren't
submitted by new folks just learning. We all have to do the best scans we
can, it is up to us, and no one else.

Jim Rawls

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