[bksvol-discuss] Re: SUBMITTED: Replacement for 4th of July by James Patterson
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
Nicely done, and nicely explained. (smile)
Cindy-
-- Gerald Hovas <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy,
>
> I did read it, and I was able to follow the plot in
> spite of the problems
> with the scan. Most of the errors were the type
> that you could figure out
> what the characters should have been, but here and
> there the book was so
> mangled that it was impossible to correct. As for
> cleaning it up before
> approving it, I might still be trying to correct the
> book if I had tried to
> correct all the scannos in that scan. All I did was
> delete the 28 or so
> duplicated pages at the end of the file and check
> the copyright.
>
> I already had the book on reserve from my library,
> but I thought I wouldn't
> get it until September or October, so I decided to
> approve the Fair copy and
> rescan it when I finally got the book. My thoughts
> were that it would
> probably be a bestseller, and some people might be
> desperate enough to read
> it in the condition it was in. As I said, I did
> read it with the impression
> that I would hit a point early on where I would
> decide to stop and reject
> it, but I was able to follow the plot all the way
> through, so I decided to
> approve it with an explanation of the problem and a
> note that I would rescan
> as soon as the book became available. In short, I
> left it up to Gustavo as
> to whether or not he wanted to spend his time
> releasing the book in that
> condition knowing that it would be rescanned in
> several months.
>
> In other words, I also put the responsibility of
> rejecting Peter's book on
> Gustavo's shoulders. <Grin>
>
> Gerald
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:56 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: SUBMITTED: Replacement
> for 4th of July by
> James Patterson
>
>
> Gerald,
>
> I'm curious. Usually you carefully correct when you
> validate. Why in this case did you accept and upload
> and leave it fair? (Hmm--that sounds like one of the
> 4
> questions asked at Passover). Did you not enjoy it
> enough to read it? Shall we take that as sort or a
> round-about review? (smile) Or is it that it is so
> popular and had so many people who wanted it that
> you
> thought it should get into the colleciton as quickly
> as possible?
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
>
> --- Gerald Hovas <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For those of you who wanted to read the book 4th
> of
> > July by James Patterson,
> > but didn't because it was rated Fair, I just
> > submitted a replacement for it.
> > It's the fourth book in Patterson's Women's Murder
> > Club series.
> >
> > I thought I'd rescan it since I am the one who
> > validated the Fair copy. I
> > was going to reject the original copy at first,
> but
> > I was able to follow the
> > plot, so I decided to accept rather than reject
> it.
> > Besides, the submitter
> > could have caused me a lot of grief with my
> > Bookshare account if I rejected
> > it. <Smile>
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> > Short Synopsis
> >
> > After shooting two teenagers in self-defense,
> > killing the girl and crippling
> > the boy, Lt. Lindsey Boxer is sued for wrongful
> > death, excessive use of
> > force, and police misconduct.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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