[bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
- From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:22:45 -0700
I wonder if some of them validate just to get a book to read...like some
people who may not have the funds right now to join Bookshare, so they grab
those books to read but have no intention of actually validating them? Just
a thought, anyway. Take care.
Julie Morales
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From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
I have seen books renewed a lot by the same person as well, and there are
some validators who, after all that time has elapsed, still release the book
back to the download page...
Sue S.
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From: "Rui" <goldWave@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
Greetings:
Although Mike and I tend not to agree on a whole lot, with this I completely
concur.
In fact, I have gone as far as to suggest a 30-day max on a book.
If you can't validate a book in a month, either your not trying, the book
should be rejected immediately or you are just leisurely reading it and
you'll submit it when you get around to it.
None of these possibilities are acceptable.
I have seen people renew a book 14 times in a row, (3 and a half months)
There is no defensible explanation for this!!!
Jake, the original structure of bookshare with validations being worth 20%
of a submission needs to be looked at.
Too many times vallidation to people means "rubber stamp."
This of course was bookshare's error in the way things were originally
presented.
However, as the system matures, things need to be done differently.
I guarantee you, you don't get a lot of grant money if your books are
sub-standard. Bookshare knows this and this is why the push towards quality
is under way.
-- Rui, goldWave@xxxxxxx
BookshareScans
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 12:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
> Jill
>
> Whether the official time is 1 week or 2 isn't the problem.
> Frankly, unless a book were a real treasure, an important or significant
> work, or a rare book -- spending 1 week, say nothing of 2, would imply
> that everyone would be better off with a rescan.
> Part of the problem in extending a 1 week to a 2 week holding time is that
> there are people who download, and then never release a book they have
> chosen not to validate for whatever reason.
> There is nothing wrong with someone grabbing something andthe then
> deciding not to validate.
> But they ought to have the courtesy of getting the book back in
> circulation.
>
> There is a reason that validating earns 20% of the credit of a submission.
> And as I have said above, if you have to do that much work to the book, it
> may well be something best turned down.
> And if you have no time at the oment to validate, then one might best take
> a vacation from validating.
> The goal is to get books into the hands of users as quickly as possible;
> extending validating times defeats that goal and encourages slow
> validating.
>
>
>
>
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