Hi everybody. I've been validating a lot lately and have taken a few
of the textbooks. I was surprised to find that they have actually
been my easiest validations this week. Both textbooks I've done in
the past 4 days have been practically spotless so that all I had to
do is verify the copyright and make sure the pages were all
there. Another textbook had pristine text but was missing some pages
and didn't have page breaks. It was rejected for that reason. I'm
sure this isn't true for every textbook, but you might be surprised
at how easy the well-scanned textbooks go for validation. I was
expecting to need to read them word by word and make corrections
throughout the text. I was delighted to find that Word only found
some technical terms when I ran the spellchecker. The mistakes had
been corrected already. Two of the books I took this week had been
on step 1 for over six months, one of them had been there for a year
and a half. I'd have done them ages ago if I'd known they'd be so
easy. I guess I'm learning that I shouldn't make assumptions about
text quality based on the subject of a book.
Monica Willyard
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