Readability is so subjective. Is reading the book this way workable for you? You could go through the first page of the acceptance process and see how the automatic evaluator program rates the book. You can accept or reject at that point. That might give you an additional piece of information. Merrill Louise, Pastor The Judson Fellowship Jamestown, New York cell/office 716.969.2840 "With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am glad because of God my Savior. (Luke 1:46-47) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] When to Reject!! > > I am now validating a novel on which I have to decide whether the text is > readable enough or not. The book is all there, I can follow the story, > but there are a lot of words scrambled and missing. Where does one draw > the line between accepting it as a fair book or canning it? > It has been sitting in the pool for a couple of months with no one > touching it. The book is scanned by a frequent contributor though this > particular book doesn't come up to what has been done by this individual > in the past. > > I could easily return it to the pool; but this likely would place the book > in limbo for who knows how long? > > So, how poor does fair text have to be to be bad text? > > >