[bksvol-discuss] please page break, please!!
- From: "Rui Cabral" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:34:06 -0500
Good evening fellow booksharians:
The biggest issue with non-pagebreaked books is the lack of navigation.
in validation a book with no breaks and no page #s is extraordinarily
difficult to work with because short of reading the whole book (not practical
or efficient) there is no way to check for completeness. you could have 10
pages missing in the middle and you would never know.
at least with page numbers, if the book is of excellent quality i will take the
time to
insert the breaks.
for instance, i validated a book with page breaks and numbers last night within
20 minutes.
it was a superb scan and was easy to confirm that everything was there. if it
had no #s or no breaks, i might still be working on it.
Also, once validated and in the collection, page breaks make a book much easier
to navigate through. the soft breaks that ms word puts in are of little value
because those are dependant on the margins set in your particular program.
well i'm going to go back validating, i wanna hit 20,000 (with high quality
tscans)
-- Rui
Bookshare.org Unofficial Volunteer Scanning Page
http://members.cox.net/booksharescans
----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 7:51 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Will place it here too!
I agree with you.
My frustration has to do with the page break issue which bookshare has
decided to incorporate. I recently had an RTF science fiction book which did
not have page numbers. The page breaks were only the ones which word
automatically puts in. There were a few spelling errors, but the scan was
excellent. I let the book release because I did not want to be the one to
reject such a beautiful scan.
I can agree with page breaks for nonfiction and text books. However, with
easy reading books, I have a problem with the new rules.
I love science fiction and fantasy books and would be happy to validate them.
However, I refuse to reject an excellent scan because it lacks page numbers and
page breaks if it is such type of book. Therefore, whenever I grab a book like
such and the only problem is lack of page breaks, I will just be glad that at
least I was able to read it.
Please reconsider this insane rule regarding light-reading books, or I will
be forced to reconsider whether it is worth my time to validate.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Reggie & Lonnie
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:38 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Will place it here too!
I am getting extremely sick and tired of all the nonsense. I validated and
uploaded 5 books last w3eekend. I have now found 3 of them back on the
download list and two have been grabbed by someone else. No warning, no
statement as to why! If my validation is going to continue like this, I quit,
quit, quit!!! I work hard and only have at night and some weekends to do this
stuff. The least that Bookshare could do is send me a notice that the book is
not good enough and that I should work on it longer and re-upload. As you can
tell I am really angry, angry, angry!!! We do not get as validators the same
amount, although we work sometimes harder than the people who scan. We need
all the money we can make to make the scans better. Now, before I break my
keyboard in total, total anger, I will depart. If I am not doing a good job
then I will not be back on this list and I will not be re-joining BKS! I am
currently fixing a fair book so if it will be returned to the list when I am
finished could someone please let me know so I do not, not continue to work
hard on this!!! Thanks.
Regina Alvarado
P.S.: These books were rated excellent!
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