[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:27:52 -0500
Fair Quality Scans: No Longer AcceptedDear Claire, Bookshare Staff at Large,
and Booksharian Friends,
Ee Ha!
Claire your news is better than fabulous! Bookshare readers and validators will
be spared so much frustration and we'll be giving the books we prepare for
Bookshare, and offer to readers, the respect they are due!
This policy will save so much time and frustration for volunteers who examined
and gave up on fair books or spent countless hours trying to bring them up to a
higher standard. And though it doesn't raise Bookshare's grand total of books
offered, I'm excited because many of us will choose to use some of that time
saved to work on BSO-ing the fair books we already have. Imagine, we are moving
toward a time when the collection will be of such high quality that subscribers
to Bookshare won't have the chance to be disappointed when they download books.
I know E, and all of the volunteers who have been asking so fervently to be
spared the burden of wasted volunteering and reading effort demanded by those
fair books, will be celebrating! They never gave up asking for this change and
they didn't wish in vain. High five to them!
We can all walk a little taller!
Thank you! Thank you!!!
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Claire O'Brien
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fair Quality Scans: No Longer Accepted
Dear Bookshare Volunteers:
In our ongoing effort to raise the quality standard of the reading
experience at Bookshare.org, we are happy to announce that 'Fair'
quality scans will no longer be accepted. We feel that in order to honor
our commitment to offer the best reading experience possible for the
print-disabled community, scanned books must now meet the minimum
quality standard of 'Good' (98.6-99.3% words recognized by our quality rating
and dictionary).
Our collection is largely built from our volunteer community, and we
value the contributions from each of our supporters. We hope that this
decision will improve the Bookshare.org experience for both our readers
and volunteers.
For helpful hints on how to produce better scans, please browse the
following resources:
The Volunteer Manual (soon be renamed the Scanning and Validation
Manual): http://www.bookshare.org/web/VMMain.html
Friends of Bookshare web page: www.friendsofbookshare.org
Jake's web page: www.jbrownell.com/bks/
Sincerely,
Claire O'Brien
Collection Development Manager, Bookshare
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
claireo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.bookshare.org
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization
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