I've worked on a few wishlist books marked "good" when I checked them out. I
have to change the quality to "excellent" when I check them back in, and I have
to do a fair bit of work on them, but not an outrageous amount.
A couple came back to me for further work, but they did eventually make it in.
I would be annoyed if I did all that work, and then they were rejected, but
that hasn't been the case for me.
Tracy
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clarissa Mitchell
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2017 7:38 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Problem with the Conversion System?
Hello,
I'm writing this message because I noticed there seem to be a lot of problems
with scanned books lately. And it doesn't matter if they're on the wish list or
not. The situation will go like this: Someone scans a book and submits it. When
a proofreader sees it on the checkout list, it will say "quality: good" and
they'll go ahead and check it out. Then, when they check it back in, they're
eventually told they need to reject this book for one reason or another, after
doing all that work! Or, they'll see an interesting book that says
"quality: good" but when they open the file, the quality is not "good"
at all because it's full of garbled text, to the point where the book doesn't
even make sense anymore and it's nearly impossible to fix, or not even worth
the proofer's time. This is ridiculous. This is a volunteer position, not a
full-time, paying job. Some of us do not, or will not in the near future, have
all day to work on cleaning up a file that either the conversion system, or the
scanning machine, made a terrible mess of. It's really frustrating. Just about
every book I've taken the time to proofread recently, after doing the best I
could to make it near perfect, had to be rejected. Personally, I'm not going
to have as much time after this summer to spend on proofreading, because I'll
be starting online college courses in the fall. I'm also blind, so when I
proofread, I basically have to read the entire book to find all the errors; I
can't just skim the document visually to see what needs to be cleaned up. That
takes a long time for me, time that I will not have at the end of August.
Furthermore, you don't get volunteer credits depending on how many books you
tried to work on, but they have to be added to the collection. Not many books
I've proofread recently could bee added to the collection at all, so I still
can't pay for membership. Hopefully, I can get the free student membership once
I get into those college courses.
Another thing: how can you tell if the problem was with the conversion system
or the scan itself? Why are we getting these "good quality"
scans that are clearly not good enough for Bookshare, have several missing
pages, or the RTF files have just been totally trashed?
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