[bookshare-discuss] Re: editing question
- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:21:25 -0500
Hi Dilsia,
I suppose there are a few different possible answers to the question of how a
"below reading quality book" could be accepted. Firstly, of course, peoples'
ideas of what constitutes acceptable quality differ. Secondly,
its possible the book was one which came in a big batch and was accepted in the
mass validation process, where volunteer validators didn't get a chance to see
the whole book, just the copyright info and a little of
the text. Thirdly, its possible that the submitter and validator didn't proof
the book very thoroughly. The administrator doesn't do anything about text
quality when he does the final approval step. At least, that is my
understanding. So the quality is up to the submitter and the validator. You
know what they say: garbage in. Garbage out. Validators are not required to do
a lot of heavy proofing. All that is actually required is to check
to make sure the author and copyright info is correct and to make some effort
to ensure the book is complete. that step may be as simple as looking at the
end to make sure the book seems to end and not get cut off
in the middle. Or it may be as thorough as reading the whole thing from cover
to cover. Or it may be somewhere in between those two. It really depends on the
validator. I know I have let one or two books go that I
really felt like rejecting, but couldn't find them at my local library and
decided to let them go, because some members have expressed the strong opinion
that any book beats none at all, which is what they'd have if I
had rejected the books in question. I think it would be kind of cool if there
could be a place for comments about a book that would show up on the book's
download page when its published. That's where validators
could tell something about the quality of the text. Those one word ratings that
the automated stats generator assigns surely do not always tell the whole story.
Mary
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