[bksvol-discuss] Re: reading in mp3Re: Re: question: Re: page breaks
- From: Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:59:31 -0500 (EST)
Mary
I too have rejected books such as you describe. I think two things are at
play here:
after you do enough validating, you develop a gut instinct as to what is
readable and what isn't.
Different folks have different tollerance levels.
What is required are standards tha are high enough to bring about
acceptible reading quality but not high enough that will discourage
contributions.
That becomes a tough judgment call I think each of us views this one a bit
differently
I still believe that good labeling to forewarn readers of less than
topnotch text can go far to address many of these issues.
And there are a lot of issues here including page breaks, text quality,
good formatting, et al.
While each of our opinions are interesting, ultimately it's Palo Alto's
call.
I just hope that they remember the spirit of Bookshare and not turn book
scanning into an activity of a handful of elete.
It's a tough balancing act, and hopefully a satisfactory solution can be
developed keeping large
numbers of new submissions coming from a wide variety of submitters
representing a wide
spectrum of interest.
It is that diversity that makes the Bookshare collection what it is;
and remember that improved standards might mean that the book you want
won't become available as the submitter cannot meet those standards.
And what would you rather have -- I know, I know; it is different things
to different people;
hence, we're back to that no simple answer thing.
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