[bksvol-discuss] Book Difficulty Levels WAS Book wWsh: The Simpson's world
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:23:07 -0700
Valerie,
Levels are assigned to all books, to determine their overall difficulty in
proofing. 1 is the easiest type of book to proof, and 6 is the hardest. The
time it takes to proof a book depends on its level and its length.
Level 1: The book has only text, chapter numbers, and page numbers, in a
standard font.
Level 2: The book has running headers or footers, in a standard font, on at
least half the pages.
Level 3: The book has page numbers or running headers in a non-standard font,
footnotes, superscripts, captions, charts, or more than a few words in a
foreign language, poems, or pictures.
Level 3.5: The book has pictures that need to be described. This is mostly used
for childrens’ picture books.
Level 4: The book has many words in a foreign language, many pictures, many
charts, or insets.
Level 5: The book has many areas of separate text on each page, formulas, text
that forces scans with differing brightness (like different colors), or heavily
formatted text.
Level 6: The book has text in a non-standard font (which forces the book to be
retyped), text at a non-horizontal angle, or massively formatted text.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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On Behalf Of Valerie Maples [vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 4:05 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book wish: The Simpson's world
Where is a listing of difficulties and level criterion?
Y'all are really shaping things up!
Valerie
On Nov 1, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Scott Rains wrote:
> Well, you definitely selected a good example of a Difficulty Level 7 book
> with this one!
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