[bksvol-discuss] yet more Thoughts on Validating and Rejecting
- From: "Sheri Wells-Jensen" <swellsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:42:20 -0400
Folks,
Maybe this makes me very veryold... older than I thought I was a few hours
ago.. but,
I remember going half nuts as a kid because books I wanted weren't available
in *any* form that I could read at all. I remember when the optcon came out
I read entire novels, character by character because my crazy trekkie
friends were reading them, and as a crazy trekkie myself, I *wanted* to read
those blasted books. I take seriously the difference between a 'fair' book
and an excellent' book, and I'm grateful for the distinction. As I teach my
youngest daughter to read braille, I'll only download excellent books for
her so she can learn well, but I, for one, am an advocate of quantity. I
want to read all kinds of stuff and I'm willing to wade through bad scans
and even missing bits if I have to. I don't *like* bad scans and I *hate*
missing bits, but I remember when a bad scan was a marvel and almost all the
books I wanted were missing.
I deeply appreciate all the work validators do. Still, if I have to choose
between the book not being there and having it there *fair* so I have to do
some puzzling, I'll take 'fair'.
One aging book fiend's .02... <smile>
Sheri W-J
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