Hi E, While there are possibly some issues that are indeed more important than validation time, if we do not attempt to maintain a quick turn around through the system, then BookShare loses part of its advantage. The initial message suggested a longer validation time and in response to that we have moved on to max times of validating. I would support such a max time provided that in rare cases for practical purposes the time can be extended. I think though the difficulty lies in finding a way that will A. not be abused B. not be granted lightly and C. that will not take away from already scarce staff resources. I too, have seen books that were renewed and renewed to only end up not being validated. I think that those validators who poor over every word of a book that is already in great shape is great because the scan will be that much better, however, I urge them to remember that there are far lesser quality books that are making their way into the collection that could really use that type of work. One reason I do not do much validating is that without access to Kurzweil 1000's Rank Spelling it is difficult without reading a majority of a book to really tell the shape it is in. Hopefully this will change in the future and I'll do more than just scan, but I still have a couple hundred titles on my list to scan, so I'll still be busy for a while yet. *grin* Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:22 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating > I agree. Sometimes I quickly validate a book. Sometimes it takes longer > than a week. There are worse issues to be addressed than keeping a book > out for a few weeks to validate. > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.0/50 - Release Date: 7/16/2005 > >