Elizabeth, I appreciate your willingness to rescue poorly scanned
books. However, I do think that it is the responsibility of the
submitter to insert some page breaks into their books and to do a
basic spellcheck. Not all validaters are willing to do the
painstaking work of reconstructing a book, and Dan was well within
his right as a validater to reject a book of poor quality and that
lacks page breaks. I see a lot of people on this list who are
scolded for following the rules and rejecting books according to
Bookshare's stated policies. I agree that there are times when
discussing a possible rejection with the list can be
helpful. Something about posts like this comes across to me as
second-guessing decisions made by a validater and that has the
potential to undermine his/her confidence. I no longer post about
the books I reject to this list because of responses like this
one. I update Jake's list, and that is as far as I'm willing to go
with posting on this issue. I'm willing to look at my reaction to
your post, and maybe I'm just having a rough week and am
over-reacting to it. I want to be fair to you, and yet something
about this issue gets under my skin. Thanks for listening to me try
to sort this all out.
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Please, if you find a book like that with a lot of scano typing errors, put it back on step 1. A lot of correcting can be done on just those kinds of errors with k1000. You may want to talk about your reasons for rejecting a book on this list before actually rejecting it. Then, you may find you can release certain books for others to work on who have access to tools you may not have.
E.
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