[bksvol-discuss] Re: my disappointment
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:00:12 -0500
Sounds good, Bud. I wish submitters would check to make sure all of the
pages have scanned before they upload a book. That way, they could rescan
the pages while they still have the book.
Sue S.
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From: "Bud Schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:10 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: my disappointment
Hi Gang,
There are many ways to scan and proofread a book, but here's how I do
it and I read every word. I scan fifty pages and listen to it while
it's scanning. Then I go throught those fifty pages getting the
blank lines and page numbers arranged properly. Then I do away with
the headers and whatever. That way I find it a lot easier and not so
overwhelming to do fifty pages at a time rather than scan the whole
book and then do all that at once to the whole book. Just my way and
it works for me.
Thanks for listening, at least I guess you listened.
BudAt 03:50 AM 8/7/2008, you wrote:
>Dear Jill,
>I only take books to validate that I am interested in reading. That way, I
>know I will be more careful than I otherwise might be. I am sure I still
>miss things though. I am most likely to miss things when I get caught up in
>the book.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jim
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>I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I guess I hope someone from
>Bookshare staff will see this and begin to think how the situation can be
>improved. I am presently reading for pleasure Out of the Deep I cry by
>Julia
>Spencer-fleming. It is a mystery and I highly recommend her books for you
>mystery buffs out there. This book has an excellent rating and was scanned,
>
>of course, by the infamous bookshare volunteer. I may be exaggerating a bit
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>but there is hardly a page in this book that does not have a mistake of
>some
>type, including such things as die for the, mat for that, etc. etc. My
>point
>in talking about this is to say that it is obvious that neither the
>submitter nor the validator read this book. In my opinion if the submitter
>has not read the book being submitted, this should be made clear, then
>hopefully only a validator who is interested in reading the book should
>take
>it. I can understand if someone volunteers to scan a book on the wish list
>that they are really not that interested in, but in that case it is even
>more important that thevalidator wants to read the book. If no validator
>wants to read it including the person who put it on the wish list, then I
>would suggest that the book isn't worth being in the colection. I hope some
>
>day I feel like taking the time to rescan this book because I am ashamed
>that it will be left on the excellent list otherwise. And, of course, that
>means Bookshare will pay $10 instead of $5 to have the book in the
>collection. I know this book can't have been in the collection for a long
>time by the way it is presented in braille. That means that scanners are
>capable of doing a far better job of scanning than is seen here. I
>recently
>validated a book submitted by Jim Baugh and you know what a great job he
>does. I was reading the book along with others and realized I was really
>holding up his book too long so I put it through Kurzweil's paces and
>submitted it. When I picked it up later as an approved book to finish
>reading it, I recorded 22 mistakes that I had missed. That is an acceptable
>
>number even though I feel bad about it but I think it proves how necessary
>it is that someone, be it submitter or validator really reads the book from
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>cover to cover. And now that validators are being paid $2.50 per book, that
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>means that only twenty books need to be read carefully per year in order to
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>maintain a free membership. Thank you all for letting me vent and I
>sincerely hope that the Bookshare staff can find some way to express these
>concerns to those volunteers not on this list. Jill
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