I do the book to the best of my ability and forget about it once it's out of my hands. I've got my original and cannot help the rest. ----- Original Message ----- From: Julie Morales To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:22 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanners' feelings Hi, Lissi. I may be in the minority here, because I haven't had anything drastic happen to a book of mine, but I don't think about it too much. Really, the only thing I worry about is what kind of disaster the stripper will make out of something, since the whole idea of trying to protect the headings you want from being zapped still baffles me. <smile> That's something I worry about with my own abilities, though, and not those of the validator. I guess, too, I worry, if I do end up doing something right in that respect and the validator does something to undo the protections I've done, I think about that now, too, but these are things I've just started thinking about with the last three or four books I've submitted. I never paid much attention to the stripper before that. Take care. Julie Morales Children are fragile. Handle with prayer. --Unknown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] scanners' feelings Dear Volunteers, So far, as a volunteer, my contribution has been validating. With every book I validate, I learn more, but also have more questions. Today I'm not asking technical questions. I want to learn more about how those of you who scan books feel about your submissions. When you take time to scan a book and place it on the step one page, do you worry how long it will be before someone takes it to validate? Do you worry if the validator will sit on it forever or make mistakes when uploading so the book doesn't get approved and you've done all of that work for nothing? All of the booksbut one that I've uploaded so far have been approved, but I feel terrible about the one that got away. It was Echoes, a book the scanner kindly allowed me to validate. It was over 450 pages long and I took a ton of hours checking it word by word. I'm more experienced, now, and probably would know how to upload it correctly. I haven't given up on it yet. Now that I have more confidence and understanding of the process, I will try again and when I get it right, the whole world will hear about it. Back to my question. I've sampled, but not kept, some random books from the step one page.A few have looked so accurate, that I thought I might be able to validate without a print counterpart. Others are well done, but contain some puzzles I'm not comfortable trying to correct without a print book for exact checking. I read books from the collection for pleasure and, while I'm patient with the ones which have numerous errors or format quirks, the accurate copies are a joy. My goal is to make the ones I validate a pleasure to read in as many kinds of formats as possible. As usual, I'm rambling in various directions, but, back to my original question. Do any of you scanners have validation or approval anxiety? I uploaded a book today. Wish it luck. Two more are completed, but uploading makes me a bit nervous because I know if I goof up in that process, I can put the book's approval at risk. Always With Love, Lissi To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.