Hi all.
I apologize in advance if this suggestion ruffles feathers, but it is made
in the spirit of getting excellent quality books into the collection.
I am one of the volunteers who believes that "validating" a book shouldn't
involve rewriting it because the scan is poor. There are some books which
have strange formatting or difficult tables and charts or other things
that
typically don't scan well and the only way to get such books into the
collection is in fact for a very patient validator to go through the whole
book and fix problematic errors that a rescan won't fix.
However, there are a lot of books on the step one download page that are
just straightforward text, fiction or nonfiction, that should scan with no
problems, but are rated as fair. In my opinion, it is a waste of
volunteer
time and effort to have a validator make these scans passable.
So here's my alternative. If I, or any other scanner, obtains a copy of a
book that is currently awaiting validation and rated fair, would it be
appropriate for us to download the fair copy, reject it, and then upload a
better scan of the same book?
Thoughts? Ideas? No rotten tomatoes please!
Donna
