[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nuking Fair submissions
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:56:02 -0600
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
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Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nuking Fair submissions
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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