Sure you can; the system doesn't care who's validating; it's only the staff that would object. Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy Ray To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:11 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My first book submission You can't even download a book to validate that you've submitted anyway, can you? Of course, I know you were just describing the various terms, but I was thinking that you can call it what you want when you submit it, the system see it as a submitted scan and someone would end up having to take it for validation anyway. Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure. ----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Willyard To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 4:04 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My first book submission Hi, Karen. Your book sounds really interesting, even if it's at the juvenile level. I'll definitely read it. Just so you know, what you are doing in proofreading your book is what we call prevalidating. Prevalidating is the work done by a person who has scanned a book before actually submitting it to Bookshare. As a side note, validaters adore people who do some proofreading of their scans before submitting. If people know that you do some proofreading before submitting a scan, they will line up at your door to work on your books. (grin) Self-validating is a term used to describe when a person submits a book and then takes it to validate as well. This is not allowed because Bookshare wants to make sure that at least two people plus the admin look at a book before it enters the collection. So what you're doing is great. It's just not what is meant by self-validating when people use that term. Lissi, one of our creative volunteers, started calling us Booksharians, and the name has stuck. So welcome to Bookshare, and I'm glad to have you as a fellow Booksharian. Monica Willyard Karen Harshfield wrote: Hi bookies - I am a new volunteer. Hopefully I can live up to even half of the level some of you all achieve here. I almost have my first book to submit. So could you please add this to the books in progress list under my name? Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw __________ NOD32 2714 (20071210) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.0/1180 - Release Date: 12/10/2007 2:51 PM