[bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:27:38 -0500
Furthermore, you can find any missing or duplicate pages in a 2000 page
books in only 11 lookups. Use binary searching. The complexity of the
algorythm is only log N, where N is the number of pages in the book.
G.
Guido D. Corona
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"Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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.
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From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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.
>
> 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.
> >
> >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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