[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:59:37 -0600
No Kelly, I am not assuming that a bad book is immediately or even
eventually rescanned. I only wish that people's time is used effectively.
As I already said, you can spend an inordinate amount of time fixing a
bad book, or spend the same time working on 4 good or excellent
submissions. Are you really serving your customers by working for a long
time on a single book?
GUido
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
Research Division,
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
"Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Guido,
You're still assuming that someone has access to all these books and can
provide a better scan. If I had a choice between spending twenty hours
fixing a scrambled scan or being given a copy of the book and asked to
rescan it, of course I would rather scan. But usually the choice is fix up
the book, or reject it and not have it at all. Of course I know that a
volunteer in this position can mention the problem on list and someone
might
go find the book and rescan, and/or they can ask Rui to add the book to
the
list with hopefully the same outcome.
As for me, I validate things I want to read. Self-interest to be sure,
although not credit-based. I actually like reading a book and fixing the
errors as I go along, and I take pride in the fact that when I upload the
book it will be as close to perfect as I can make it. Of course, it's a
real
pleasure to have a scan that's so good I don't have to do much or any
correcting. And if the submitter says that they've already read the book
through I wouldn't necessarily read the whole thing before uploading.
And my point is... hm, I thought I had one... Oh, never mind!
Kellie
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