[bksvol-discuss] Re: submission with poor quality rating
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:37:59 -0500
Hi E,
This is a little late response here.
You mention "poor" books.
If a book is so dismal at the time of submission you would call it poor
rather than fair, then please consider rejecting the book. A valid reason
for rejection is that the book's quality is too low.
I say this with a few things in mind.
Yes, you can spend hours attempting to fix a poor book, when it would in
reality probably be quicker to rescan the book properly and do a cleanup on
it.
If this is truly the case, please reject.
We have more than 400 books on the step 1 page, and we need to make
decisions about them and if that means we reject rather than spending 10
hours cleaning up a 200 page book, then so be it.
Now, I'm not saying let's reject everything, that's not what I want to imply
at all. Just consider how many good or excellent books you could validate in
the time it took you to validate that poor book. That would help the quality
of books and quantity of books, both.
A thought on people releasing books.
Yes, release a book if you think all it needs are page breaks, and someone
with a print copy can furnish those, or something similar. However, if you'd
call it poor, not even fair, don't make another volunteer do what you just
did because you released rather than rejected.
The list in general should also remember not to jump on people who mention
that they've rejected a book. Me, I rejected 5 the other day. Now don't
worry, two were books already in the collection at a better quality level, 1
was a proprietary e-book, 1 was a 700+ page textbook without page breaks
(computer code), and the last was submitted in the wrong format. All of
those were valid rejections, but I didn't bother to mention them to the list
because of the possible uproar that might occur.
Finally, please remember that not every book is worth saving if it's in
really bad shape. Somebody who is interested someday will rescan it.
Remember how many books of better quality you could work on in the meantime
rather than work on a poor book.
Let's start chopping at the step 1 list and see about shortening it.
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 6:55 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submission with poor quality rating
I notice that bookshare still accepts books submitted which have poor
quality ratings. Given the number of books on bookshare, is this policy
going to continue into the future? I knew bookshare is interested in the
sheer number of books available to subscribers. I also know from my
experience as a validator the amazingly long time necessary to get a fair
book into any kind of decent condition. Is it a good idea to continue to
enlarge the step 1 list with these books and to give the validator only
fifty cents for correcting them? For instance, could a submitter get a
different rate depending on the rating given to the book at time of
submission? Alternatively, could a validator get special credit for fixing
up a "poor" quality book?
E.
At 04:36 AM 6/17/2006, you wrote:
I've requested Blood Royal; I,Elizabeth; the Six Wives
of Henry VIII; Winter Queen, and Memoirs of Cleopatra
(over 900 pages) but I have a lot of other things to
do, so if someone else wants them, you can have them.
Cindy
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