[bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!!
- From: James Nuttall <jnuttallphd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:54:24 -0700 (PDT)
I can see you validators work very hard at making books useful and readable. I
scan my own work for my own reading. I personally will be a book at 98%
accurate, that is 2 words and 100 and errors. Beyond that I don't have the
patience for such an OCR job. It wasn't until OCR got much better, i.e. better
than 99% accurate that I really started to scanned books and read them.
Jim Nuttall -- Michigan
Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sarah
I'm going to adopt your yardstick until I own K1000 and have mastered it.
It is practical to consider such a frequent occurrence of errors as
something that is going to drive the average reader batty.
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Sarah Van Oosterwijck wrote:
> I would personally feel a book should be rejected if words were missing with
> the frequency of an important word for every 2 lines on average, or an
> entire line for each page. I don't think 1 letter wrong in a word, or small
> words like "the" would count as missing or completely scrambled "important
> words". You know there is no rule, but if you found the book extremely
> irritating, then reject it. If it was a type of book you would usually
> enjoy, and this one was annoying to read, reject. If you liked reading the
> book in general, approve. Of course, if the book wasn't something you would
> particularly enjoy even in perfect condition, applying these guidelines
> won't help at all.
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Pietruk"
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>> 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?
>>
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