[bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly disappearing books
- From: "Jamie Prater" <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:17:05 -0500
Hi, I'm not sure this is appropriate or fair as the condition was far from
excellent based on what we've all found with the books but I'd very much love
to see these and others like them in the collection. The name of the two
authors are Lilian B. Yeomans and Lester Sumrall. These would be a wonderful
asset to the Christian part of bookshare's collection.
----- Original Message -----
From: Melissa Smith
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 12:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly disappearing
books
In my experience, the submitter of a book can choose the quality. So, I would
say that the submitter believed them to be in excellent condition, though that
apparently wasn't the case.
Melissa Smith
On 6/12/2010 11:46 AM, Jamie Prater wrote:
Hi again, how did these books get through the submission process as
excellent with all the word breaks and no page breaks, and how do you determine
appropriate and inappropriate paragraph breaks?
----- Original Message -----
From: Lori Castner
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly disappearing
books
Hi, Jamie,
I rejected one of the books, and the errors were not at all minor. As I
recall, as well as no page breaks, the book had many broken words with dashes
in the middle and many inappropriate paragraph breaks.
I'm letting you know this because as I recall you felt that your
experience level made it difficult for you to proofread the book. Your
experience level was not at all the problem.
I seldom reject books and will make a concerted effort to correct errors.
However, in this case, I knew that a rescan would take less time than
correcting all the problems and determining many of the page breaks would be
guess work at best. I realized clearly why rejections sometimes have to occur.
I hope the scanner will ask for assistance.
Lori C.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:11 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly
disappearing books
Hi Jamie,
One of the books by Yeomans was rejected because there were no page
breaks. A rescan was requested. Another Yeomans book was rejected because every
line was its own paragraph. A rescan was requested. The third was rejected
because it was a duplicate of the first book. The person has also submitted
books that start with Chapter 1 and are missing all front matter. We've
suggested reading the online manual, or getting a scanning mentor, but as far
as I know, the submitter hasn't contacted any of us for help or clarification
about what's required for a book to be submitted. Not much else we can do!
Carrie
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From: Jamie Prater <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 10:51:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] getting worried about possibly disappearing
books
Hi, all, I posted a message on the vookshare volunteer list last night.
Several weeks ago, somebody graciously submitted three books by Lilian B.
Yeomans, M.D., and one book by Lester Sumrall that I wanted to do but couldn't
because of minor formatting issues and pagination problems--needed minor page
number help but I'm not skilled in this and had to release all four books. I
thought one person had downloaded some of them, but now, I cannot find them
anywhere on the site. They're not in the proofread/checkout list anywhere;
they are not on the in process or the awaiting approval list or the books in
process list. Could a book just disappear or did someone take them off the
site for some reason? Nobody so far has been able to help me find the books so
I could check on their progress. As far as words go, they were clean scans,
they just needed slightly more format help and pagination changes than I feel
capable of. I really wanted these books in the collection and am starting to
get worried as to what's happened to them. Thanks for any help and have a
blessed day.
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