[bookshare-discuss] Re: romances, some Christian with less than excellent ratings
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 23:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
Well put, MOnica. I like the garden analogy.
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Elizabeth. You are thoughtful to put this list
> together. Some of
> those books do need to be dealt with. To add to your
> list of possible
> problem books, there is a series of mysteries by Pat
> Welch that are all
> rated good and all have the same set of issues with
> parts of sentences
> cut out, lots of stray characters, and some
> consistent scannos that
> could be fixed with an adjustment to brightness
> settings. The reason I
> stopped tackling these particular types of books is
> that many of them
> were done by the anonymous Bookshare volunteer and
> cannot be contacted
> with offers of help. If I see poorly scanned books
> with a name attached,
> I do take the time to see if I can help. For the
> anonymous books, I
> think it's a waste of good validaters' time to try
> to fix them. If we do
> fix them up after investing a lot of time, these
> anonymous submitters
> will submit more books in the same quality because
> their books are
> getting approved. They will have no incentive to ask
> for help or to ask
> why people have a problem with their books.
>
> I've heard it said that what we focus on grows.
> Where we focus our
> attention and effort is the part of a garden that
> will flourish. I
> believe that we should reward good scanning with
> faster approval times.
> As long as there are well-scanned books to be worked
> on, why set those
> aside for obviously messed up ones? For example, I
> validated a pristine
> scan Jake had done of a Hardy Boys book last night.
> The whole thing took
> me roughly 90 minutes to do because I read the whole
> book. I could have
> done it in ten minutes if I hadn't wanted to read
> the story. This scan
> had been sitting on step 1 for months without being
> touched. By letting
> it sit for so long, what did we subtly teach Jake
> about the importance
> of his careful work?
>
> I do realize that we'll need to deal with the poor
> scans eventually. I
> also know we need to tell new volunteers to look for
> easier books to
> start on so they can learn how things work. I think
> if we truly rejected
> the books that need it, Claire might go into shock
> for a bit because I'd
> predict she'd have around 30 to 40 books in the
> rejection queue to process.
>
> Monica Willyard
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