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Originally Posted by Kav
Steve walk us through grading-what is the first thing you do, how do you check resto etc do you ever get baffled. Are there certain books you're sick of seeing. Stuff like that.

Originally Posted by SteveBorock
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Originally Posted by Kav
Steve walk us through grading-what is the first thing you do, how do you check resto etc do you ever get baffled. Are there certain books you're sick of seeing. Stuff like that.

Well.... The first thing I do is check my pre-graders notes, as that speeds up the process of finalizing. I do not check their grades until I pick the grade I think it should be. If we are all in agreement on the grade, I hit the grade button and it goes to encapsulation. If, say, I pick the grade of 7.0 and one of the pre-graders is at 6.5 and the other is at 7.0, I pick 7.0. If my pre-graders are at a different grade than I am, I will pass the book to another grader. If that grader chooses the same grade I did, that's the grade I give it. If not, I will re-evaluate my grade and change it or not.

I check for restoration even after it has already been checked, as sometimes I find 1 or 2 things that have been missed.

As to being "baffled", yes, that happens. I once held a book in grading for two weeks because it "felt" funky. Looked at it everyday and finally found out what was wrong with it. A very sneaky resto job. That said, it is very rare that that would happen. Today I found a slight trim on a book that took me 10 minutes to figure out if I was correct or not.

Hope that helps answer your question

Originally Posted by SteveBorock
Quote:

Originally Posted by Kav
Steve walk us through grading-what is the first thing you do, how do you check resto etc do you ever get baffled. Are there certain books you're sick of seeing. Stuff like that.

Well.... The first thing I do is check my pre-graders notes, as that speeds up the process of finalizing. I do not check their grades until I pick the grade I think it should be. If we are all in agreement on the grade, I hit the grade button and it goes to encapsulation. If, say, I pick the grade of 7.0 and one of the pre-graders is at 6.5 and the other is at 7.0, I pick 7.0. If my pre-graders are at a different grade than I am, I will pass the book to another grader. If that grader chooses the same grade I did, that's the grade I give it. If not, I will re-evaluate my grade and change it or not.

I check for restoration even after it has already been checked, as sometimes I find 1 or 2 things that have been missed.

As to being "baffled", yes, that happens. I once held a book in grading for two weeks because it "felt" funky. Looked at it everyday and finally found out what was wrong with it. A very sneaky resto job. That said, it is very rare that that would happen. Today I found a slight trim on a book that took me 10 minutes to figure out if I was correct or not.

Hope that helps answer your question