[bksvol-discuss] Re: my disappointment
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
Maybe it could be put back on the download list and be revalidated by someone
who would like to read it.
I agree totally with you, Jill. The reason submitters aren't allowed to
validate their own submissions is because it's too easy to "see" as correct
what they expect to be correct. Even the best of us make mistakes. Like you,
Ann, I usually read everything I validate--in almost 6 years I've not done that
twice, I admit, but if anyone ever reads those books and finds problems I'm
willing to correct them. grin. The book I'm doing now is near perfect; I took
it at the submitter's request to put in footnote numbers, and it's not as
interestingly written as I had hoped, but I am reading it and, though it seems
so perfect that one might be tempted to just give it a quick spell-check if it
weren't for the footnote problem, I've found only 2 or 3 scanning errors in 243
pages--nothing that would make it not excellent but why not have it as perfect
as can be?
Besides, as you point out, people are now getting paid good money for
validating and should be willing to read for it. When newbies ask how to
validate I just tell them to read the book and correct scanning errors as they
do.
Cindy
--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: my disappointment
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 5:33 PM
> Hi all,
>
> This is awful! I feel somewhat responsible as I had
> started folks on
> the mystery series last Christmas with In The Bleak
> Midwinter by the
> same author.
>
> Jill, I can only say that I didn't read my copy from
> Bookshare. If you
> are signed up for the NLS downloadable program, it is on
> there. It
> may be that a cassette copy exists as well.
>
> It's a horrible thing to say that Bookshare didn't
> come up to scratch,
> but apparently, it didn't in this case. I sure hope
> it can be
> rescanned cuz it's definitely a keeper. Julia
> Spencer-Fleming is well
> worth the reading.
>
> Ann P.
>
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