Quoting skipnet50:

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And as I noted, McCode in my first comment, while it's not in the Rules for a variety of reasons, some users don't have the skills to knock off the corners, which can sometimes be quite challenging. For aesthetic reasons somewhere in the dark past, it became the standard, not by me I might add. Most of us who do so have been doing it for a very long time. If you don't have the ability to knock off the corners that's fine, likely at some point such a scan will be replaced by a more skillful user.. That is simply the way it is.

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The rules are the standard. Anything else is a preference. The question posed in the beginning of this thread is essentially is it ok to replace a squared-off version with a rounded-corner version. The rules-based answer to that is yes, it's ok.

If you cannot cite some verbiage in the Rules to support your "no" vote, then it would be a violation of the Rules to vote "no".

Personal preference is not a valid reason for a "no" vote.

Quoting skipnet50:

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And I will vote against such a submission, since the Rules do not specify it and I would consider an inferior copy.

So you rolls your dice and you takes your chances. Or you can accept the Convention that was established long before there were ever Rules, and as I said it was not a convention that i had ANYTHING to do with, though I think the end product is far more pleasing estheticall than the rounded corners.

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If a cover has rounded corners, then a scan with rounded corners is a more accurate representation of the cover.

Quoting m.cellophane:

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If a cover has rounded corners, then a scan with rounded corners is a more accurate representation of the cover.

And it looks like crap.

I agree Grendell, and that to me makes it an INFERIOR scan, hal. In otds NOT a SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT, Hal I will say this one time hal, since you seem determined to redo the Rules and cause all the work to have to be REDONE, you have done VERY little the last two years, if you want to upset the apple cart, then you had bettere be prepared to get to work on it. If you aren't and I am trying to be polite here...zip it. I have spent far too much time on this to allow someone, anyone to come in and turn it all upside down, just because he wants to a PITA to me. I am not trying to be argumentative, brag or anything else Hal, perhaps IF you had spent some ACTUAL time on this, you might have some appreciation for my feelings on the matter. Go forward NOT backwards.

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Quoting Grendell:

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Quoting m.cellophane:

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If a cover has rounded corners, then a scan with rounded corners is a more accurate representation of the cover.

And it looks like crap.

We don't fix typos in overviews or credits either. Same thing.

12 pages here we come....

there should be a rule amendment on this matter - so its in there.

Quoting m.cellophane:

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We don't fix typos in overviews or credits either. Same thing.

Good point, we accept crap...as long as it's "as credited".....