[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:28:01 -0600
mary, quite frankly, I could not care less about the submitter rescanning
the bad copy or preferring to sulk themselves onto eternity.
This is only a matter of optimal usage of staff and volunteer time, as I
explained in my note to Cindy.
If anyone finds a hopeless submission of mine, I trust they will have the
fortitude to nuke it with the same equanimity that I will experience
receiving the rejection note. When I was a programmer I was a firm
believer in egoless programming: If I found a bug in anyone's code, I
expected it to be fixed. If there were too many bugs, I expected a
rewrite. And yes, I demanded the same treatment towards my code, except
that, I usually found my own bugs before anyone else did, and fixed them
in time.
Guido
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
Research Division,
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux
Just some things to ponder before you take the axe to all books with no
page breaks, regardless of the quality of their text. A lot of people
expressed the idea that they didn't much care about page breaks, that they
could navigate just fine without them, especially if the book in question
was your basic novel, very unlikely to be used as a reference book by
anyone.
There is an assumption that all the books that are rejected are going to
be rescanned. For those of you who like to toss off figures about how
quickly you can scan and prevalidate a book, and who are thus ready to
help reduce the backlog by rejecting the hapless books with no page breaks
in them, does that then mean that you're also going to scan replacement
copies? Or is the assumption that the original submitter will see the
error of his or her ways and rescan and submit those titles including page
breaks this time? I find that to be a very dubious assumption.
Finally, since Marissa said there would be something forthcoming from
BookShare hq on this topic probably by the end of the week, I think it
would be better to wait and see what they have to say before a wholesale
search and destroy operation is begun.
Remember, the last word we had from Marissa regarding this topic, at
least as I recalll, was that page breaks alone were not cause for
rejection; and I believe she also said that one of the members on this
list who had
a lot of older scans that may be missing those page breaks should still
submit them. So if its ok for them to be submitted, then it would seem
to be not ok to reject based on an absence of page breaks alone.
Mary
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