[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nuking Fair submissions
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:52:28 -0800 (PST)
Ah, Guido -- thank goodness you have such a good sense
of humor. Your two posts this evening made me LOL --
until I got to the last line of this one and now have
to go to bed feeling guilty instead of laughing. Are
you a Jewish mother is disguise? You do guilt so well.
Fortunately, I'm a tough old bird who had practice
resisting a nice Jewish mother, so I think after a
good night's sleep I'll go back to my stubborn ways --
or maybe not. Maybe I'll leave those Fair ones and
concentrate on easy-to-read books like those most of
you here submit.
Cindy
--- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy, the best way to help the soul of the poor
> wayward volunteer who
> persists in committing mortal sins of low quality is
> to methodically nuke
> her poor submissions. Eventually she may get the
> message. Remember, we
> are not working for the welfare of other volunteers,
> you and I are
> working for paying customers.
> They cannot tell the difference between a book which
> was saved with a lot
> of TLC and time, from a state of scanning turpitude,
> from one that had an
> easy birth.
> But what they can easily tell is the difference
> between just 10 excellent
> books published per day, and 40 excellent books
> published per day.
>
> Hope this helps to harden your heart. <chuckle>
>
> Guido
>
>
> Guido Dante Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> Research Division,
> Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
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> Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Mary, you made good points.
>
> Guido, you have some good points, too. I'm
> correcting
> a supposedly Fair copy of Johnny Tremain that really
> should have been rated Poor, it's so bad. I keep
> telling myself that it would be faster to scan it
> and
> then prevalidate it, but I can't bring myself to do
> that. I know I'm probably wasting time because I
> think
> my scan would have fewer mistakes, but . . . no I
> feel
> guilty because I'll have one book to send up istead
> of
> four (smile).
>
> But the missing words in the books I was talking
> about
> would never have been noticed if I hadn't been
> reading
> the books. There were no spaces in the sentences to
> indicate that a word or several wre missing or that
> words were the wrong ones. It was only in the
> reading
> that I could tell something was wrong -- didn't make
> sense -- and then I could check the book to see what
> the correct word should be. In some cases it was
> what
> I would have put in if I didn't have the book, but
> in
> other cases it was something different -- not that
> it
> would have made a big difference to the reader.
>
> I suggested that the person who submitted all those
> txt Fair files that aren't getting validated
> download
> and reject them herself and resubmit them as rtf
> files. I assume she has the originals and could
> convert them to rtf before submitting them, and I'd
> be
> willing to validate them, since I've gathered from
> discussions here, as well as their popularity in the
> general population, that people do enjoy them for
> light reading, but as far as I know that hasn't been
> done.
>
> Cindy
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