What I hate to see are books submitted and rated good not to mention fair.
If as a validator I do what Bookshare requests, the book would not be
changed and I think it is a shame to have such books on the list. The pay is
not important to me, but producing books I can be proud of is.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
Jill,
Validation of course is still meant to be a task that doesn't take that
long. Striving for perfection can push the task past its original intended
goal and thus the time limit.
Renewing a book doesn't take but a minute to do. As well if a volunteer
decides not to complete a book and is a newbie or simply forgets, then the
book spends less time languishing on that volunteers Step 2 page.
BookShare's main goal is to be a timely publication service, not another
slow one.
I think perhaps a better suggestion is to have an email generated warning
the user of the books pending experation. Such an email would give
volunteers time to renew the book rather than having the notice go out when
the book returns to step 1.
As a final note I thinkt the amount of credit a validation is worth attempts
to show how the step is to be performed. (I'm not saying anything against
those of you who go above and beyond the call of duty when validating, I'm
just noting how the step was intended).
Best, Jake
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:40 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
I have suggested to Bookshare that validation time be two weeks instead ofbetter
one. Hopefully if those validating weren't so rushed they could do ajob than we sometimes see. Of course, we can renew but that in itself is
time consuming. What do the rest of you think?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 10:13 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] renewing books you're validating
> Rose's post of a while ago made me tremember that the
> same thing happened to me when I first started
> validating. So I thought, for the newbies, I'd mention
> this: If you count seven *including* the day you
> download or renew, your book(s) will be renewed and
> not released. Also, you can renew them a day or two
> sooner if you want. And you can renew after midnight
> on day six, which is the 7th day. I usually do that so
> I have the book longer, though since we can keep on
> renewing it doesn't really matter much.
>
> HTH
> Cindy
>
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