It is cute and gave me a chuckle. Thanks for sharing- Cindy - siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Cindy, > > I am finding this particular scanno error of which > you speak in some books I > have downloaded to read, whether on my computer or > on my Flash Card.. It > makes me wonder if it is some kind of bug going > around.. I told one of my > sighted friends about it, and she said it sounds > like an ego problem. You > know, as in "look after Number One." <lol> I > thought that was cute and > wanted to share it. > > Sue S. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:26 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 1 for I > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email > to > > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the > subject line. To get a list > of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself > in the subject line. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.2/294 - > Release Date: 3/27/06 > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.