[bksvol-discuss] Re: 1 for I

If I'm not planning to ead a book (if the text looks good thothrough spot checks) I will do searches for some of the common Scanning errors, 1 for I, 'I'11 for the contraction 'll, rn instinstead of m (very easy to search for, actually), etc. Much of what I search for depends on the ccontext of the book. In a book In a novel about a family, for example, I will search and replace for morn instead of Mom.

At 11:32 AM 30/03/2006, you wrote: 
Cindy,

This is actually one of those occasions like the quotes where people using
speech or Braille to read the book has an advantage over a sighted person.
1 and I sound differently and aren't similar in Braille.  Of course
volunteers have to actually read the book when validating for it to make a
difference.

Gerald


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Yes, I've found it to be a common scanno--and one that
can be missed even when one with sight reads the
books. When I find it once, I do a find and replace,
replacing, one at a time, space 1 space with space I
space. I do it carefully, though, one replacement at a
time rather than a global replace, in case the number
is supposed to be there, which happens rarely, but
still. And if, as in the book I'm doing now, the 1 is
instead of the I in a set of capital letters (acronym
for an organiztion) I find and replace that, too.

Cindy
--- Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't know whether this should be on Jake's tips
> list but lately I have started searching for 1
> instead of I in  the books I validate; this seems to
> be a very common scanning error and, of course, it
> isn't reporeted in rank spelling. It also often
> occurs as one of those extraneous characters too.
>


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