[bksvol-discuss] Scratch document
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:25:21 -0700 (PDT)
I do something similar, only I call it Comments and
the book title. As I'm validating the book and think
of a good short synopsis (in case the scanner hasn't
included one, or this is a book I've scanned and am
pre-validating) I include that. Comments about the
book, e.g., that it has a lot of dialect or foreign
words that might skew the rating, that I think need to
go along with the book I put in a Long synopsis. And I
inlcude what I want to write in the comments section
and also what I want to say about the book, if
anything, when I post that I;m submitting or uploading
it. Since I write these as I go along, it gets changed
as I go along, until I'm finally ready to upload ot
submit. With my memory, if I didn't write things down
as I thought of them, I'd probably forget and maybe
omit some relatively important information by the time
I'm through with the book.
Cindy
--- "Jackie M." <xercon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've started what I call a "scratch" document with
> each book I validate, and
> I decided with my last validation that I would copy
> the "notes" from the
> Bookshare site and put them in the "scratch"
> document. I also put the
> intro. pages - title page, book jacket info., and
> contents pages into the
> "scratch" document. That way, if I need to refer to
> them while validating
> or while uploading, the scratch document can be
> conveniently and easily
> found. I delete it once the book is validated. If
> I'm validating a couple
> different books, I name the document "scratch - book
> title". I keep the
> scratch in the same directory as the book I'm
> validating.
>
> I agree the cryptic notes could be much more
> complete and specifically
> informative.
>
> - Jackie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 6:12 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] teaching meditation to
> children
>
>
> > My name is listed as part of the validating stream
> of Teaching Meditation
> > to Children. Something is going on and I am
> unable to understand the
> > cryptic note. Something about copyright.
> >
> > By the way, on the subject of cryptic notes. What
> gives? Surely a bit
> > more transparency in the character of the
> mysteriously cryptic notes is in
> > order in general and particularly on the step 2
> page. For one thing, once
> > a book is downloaded by a volunteer, would it be
> possible to transfer
> those
> > beginning notes to thename of the book currently
> being worked on so I can
> > still see the original submitter and book history?
> And what about making
> > those notes actually say things folks can
> understand and using long
> > descriptive sentences. That way, we volunteers
> can support each other in
> > getting issues resolved and know who to speak to
> about resolving what.
> >
> > An example is my validating of Teaching ...
> >
> > Another example is my validating Folktales of the
> British Isles.
> >
> > Fortunately, I remember that Kenneth Cross
> submitted it. So I know who to
> > write to. I can tell him for example that the
> scan is beautiful on all
> > counts except the dates. i can pretty much figure
> those out by context
> and
> > am doing so. The errors seem to be i for 1 and o
> for 0 so far and
> > sometimes 0 for 1 as in 0887 which by context is
> clearly meant to be 1887.
> >
> > Forgive me for long ranting posts. Longer notes
> would help. Even short
> > ones I can understand are welcome.
> >
> > E.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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