[bksvol-discuss] Re: 1 for I

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.
> > >
> >
> >
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