[bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
- From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:38:04 -0400
In almost every book I have scanned, which is about a thousand, I have
rarely found the pagination quite that exact. First, pictures are inserted,
sometimes on un-numbered pages. Also, some pages, such as charts and
graphs, are either un-numbered of just plain missing. Suppose I get a
two-thousand page book from a library and scan it perfectly, but miss one
index page. Do you really want that book trashed? We are not talking about
simple issues here. We are talking about a group of people, I mean us, who
have spent most of our lives without immediate access to current books,
however bad the form. Let's not give that up in search of perfection.
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
> Search for page numbers as in 79 followed by 80 etc. until you go through
> the book's page numbers. It sounds like a lot of work but really does not
> take much time.
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> E.
> At 03:55 PM 8/10/2004, you wrote:
> >I've hesitated in offering my services in validating due to my concern
> >(perhaps unwarranted) that I couldn't do the maticulous job some of yu
> >obviously do based on the books I routinely read from BookShare.
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> >At this point, I've not purchased any of the fancy ocr packages such as
> >k100 or Open Book which would make reviewing submissions a relative
> >breeze. In reviwing the outlined tasks involved in validating, the
> >stickler would be the one concerning making certain that the text is
> >incomplete form and no pages are mmissing. Other than reading the entire
> >book, how would one go about this task without a program such as K100
> >which seems more and more impressive every time you folks discuss it?
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