Yes, Sarah, you would have to cancel the pretend accept if you just wanted to get a rating and then start the process all over again to actually reject the book, but it would give you a rating if you, like me, had no other way to do it. 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: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 1:53 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!! > Yes, that would be a good idea, but I am afraid it wouldn't work. The > accept or reject choice is on the first page, and the quality rating is on > the second. the only thing you could do would be to cancel the second page > instead of completing the process if you wanted to reject. > > Sarah Van Oosterwijck > http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Merrill Louise" <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 5:46 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: When to Reject!! > > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >