Donna: I am not a member of bookshare--I'm workin on doing that thru scanning & validating, but it'll take awhile. Having said thus, I would not think even for a nanno-second of submitting a sloppy scan. It isn't fair. Folks pay good money or spend lots of hours of their precious time to scan &/or validate books for the collection in order to become a member, &, as such, they deserve the best that can be offered. I will delay getting my membership rather than sacrifice quality--& do so gladly. On 1/12/08, siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > People are going to think, oh, here we go, a spoiled NLs bRAILLE USER. > hOWEVER, WHY SHOOULLD WE VALIDATORS WASTE OUR TIME ON POOR QUALITY BOOKS, > WHEN THE RESULTS WILL STILL BE POOR QUALITY? > > sUE s., WHO TYPED IN ALL CAPS WITHOUT PROOFING!!!!!! <LOL> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Donna Smith > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:05 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality > submissions > > > Good points all! The volunteer manual states: > > > > Validators may recommend that a book be rejected for one of the following > reasons: > > List of 5 items > > . Book does not meet the > > Requirements Which Books Must Meet Before Being Added to the Collection > > . Book is of Poor scan-quality > > . Book is not in the file format specified on the form. > > . Book is already in the collection, and the existing copy does not need to > be replaced. > > . Book is a duplicate of a submission by the same volunteer. > > list end > > > > I browsed around through the manual, but didn't find any definition of "poor > quality. Can anyone shed clarity on this? > > > > I also understand about the credit thing. If a person can only maintain > their subscription to BookShare by submitting sloppy scans, then I wouldn't > want to deny them their subscription. (I know.It's my bleeding heart > thing.) > > > > So here's an alternative to the alternative: Those of us who wish to > replace a fair quality submission with a better scan, should download the > fair quality offering, validate it for administrative approval as a fair > quality book which would give the original scanner the credits, and then > submit a BSO version of the same book as a replacement for the one just > added to the collection. This creates a little extra work, but not as much > as trying to clean up a bad scan. It would also move some of those books > which have been hanging around the step one page because no one wants to > touch them. > > > > There must be a solution! > > > > Donna > -- Jackie McBride Please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489> & Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.