[bksvol-discuss] Re: posting here before rejecting books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 18:10:37 -0700 (PDT)
Hi, Shannon,
I agree with everything you said up until where you
said that if you hadn't liked the book you'd have felt
within your rights to reject it. Absolutely you'd have
been within your rights!! BUT--that is exactly the
kind of book that I would have enjoyed fixing. I love
Torey Hayden's books--I've read everything, or almost
everything, she's written. And I agree that her books
are definitely valuable editions to the collection.
It's possible, since she is a popular author with
people interested in special ed children that someone
else would have re-scanned the book. But I could have
obtained the book from the library; would have enjoyed
reading and correcting as I went along, like you; and
could have scanned and valdidated the missing pages.
In fact, in a situation like that, where you find some
pages missing, you can ask me, either here or
offlist--take my email address, please--to obtain the
book and scan and validate the missing pages for you.
If I can't obtain the same edition, like your husband,
but finding the text before and after I can provide
the missing text as he did for you.
I'm not saying people shouldn't reject books. I'm just
suggesting that waiting a couple of days before doing
so and saying here first that they're planning to and
why, might give someone else a chance to fix it. A lot
of books, especially those with no page breaks, are
easier for a sighted person who can get the book to
fix than for a blind person who doesn't have the book.
And although people say it's easier to re-scan some
books than take the time to fix them, I don't know how
many such books have been rescanned vis-a-vis how many
have disappeared.
Cindy
--- "Shannon A. Reece" <shazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> AS a validator, I think I can say that part of the
> problem is that if you've
> got a book with tons of scannos and that book
> doesn't grab you, it's easier
> to reject it instead of trying to fix it up,
> especially if it is really full
> of errors adn missing pages. I had an absolutely
> fabulous book by Torey
> Hayden that was full of scannos, mostly extra
> characters, but that was so
> good that I kept reading and correcting, reading and
> correcting, and then
> marking the book so I could type in the missing
> text. then I went to the
> library, got the print book from interlibrary loan
> and my husband, who
> didn't have to do this and who had to search to find
> the text that was
> missing because our page numbers didn't match, read
> the missing text to me
> so I could type it in by hand. Sometimes it was
> just words. But there were
> four places where it was over 2 pages that was
> missing and needed to be
> typed in. Now had I not liked this book, I feel
> that I would have been well
> within my rights to reject it because it was truly
> full of errors. There's
> enough traffic on this list as it is without having
> to post queries about
> should I or should I not reject the book. And just
> because there are ways
> and tools to correct these types of things with
> K1000 as E. indicated,
> doesn't mean that she or anyone else with K1000
> would be willing to take
> these books and correct them.
> If Dan is anything like me when I first started out,
> I agonized over
> everything I did. It's not fun being a new
> validator sometimes when you've
> got people sending you these short snippy sounding
> messages as E. did to Dan
> which I only saw when I looked down through Monica's
> post. It bodes us all
> to remember that we were all new at this once, and
> that there are some books
> which don't need to have all this time put into
> them, especially when you've
> got a step1 page that has 400 books on it again and
> an admin queue which has
> books in it from months back! It took me a month to
> do the Hayden, but to
> be fair, I wouldn't have done it if the book wasn't
> so blasted good.
> Shannon
> "The world is your garden from which you remove
> weeds of doubt and replace
> them with seeds of hope."
> http://reecespeeces.net/blogs
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