[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Plan for More Work (was Acdcent Marks)

  • From: "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:05:25 -0500

Hi Everyone,

I just saw Lissi's great e-mail on more work for everyone, and here's a plan I think could work for that:

When I came on board a year ago, I thought I was going to be a proofer. I mean, I'm blind, and that seemed like the best way for a blind person to go. However, I immediately met Valerie Maples and Lissi, and they encouraged me to try scanning. Well, that made sense to me, because I'd been scanning books for nearly as long as scanners had been accessible. I determined, since I love scanning, to be one of Bookshare's best scanners, and to work with proofreaders who actually read the books I scanned and would put the very best book possible into the collection.

The way I've gotten enough work to keep me busy is to tell Valerie and Lissi when I'm running short, and to let the list know that I have a library card from my local library which gives me access to books throughout the country. Each one costs $1, which I gladly pay for the privilege of scanning it into the Bookshare collection. I turn in only Excellent scans, so even a new proofreader should be able to read through the book and make only a few changes. I do insist that you read the entire book, though.

The other thing proofreaders and potential proofreaders can do to help expand the list are the things Lissi and Valerie have done--research books. Find those you'd like to proof that aren't in the collection, and let a scanner know you're interested. But when you want a book scannd, we need to know the exact title, exact author's name, ISBN, and publication date. That saves ever so much research time for us. We'll scan faster if you find and send us copies of the books--but if you can't--I know many of us are working with zero budgets--let us get them from ILL or some other means--then we're working together. I have come up with maybe ten books to scan, but I work with wonderful proofers who are constantly looking for books for me to scan.

Let's all team up and put lots of really good volunteer books in the collection. When you see a HOLD, respect it. When you find a book you'd like, put it on the wish list, or contact someone you know scans and ask them to scan it and have you proof it. Then you'll have your own holds. There are plenty of books in the world to be done by volunteers. But everyone needs to take an active role in locating, scanning and proofreading. Find your niche, and work as hard as you choose. And welcome aboard to new people. I'm amazed at how wonderful this job still is more than a year down the road!

Sandi

----- Original Message ----- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 11:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Accent marks


Dear Kim and Booksharian Friends,

Kim, Since I'm reading this thread out of order, you may have already had this suggestion. To produce an I umlaut I delete the i, and press the control and shift down together. As I hold them, I type the colon Then release all three keys and type i. when you backspace your screenreader should say i umlaut. This is with Word 2003. Soon I'll have to make the leap to a more updated word, oh dread!

Good luck!

Many thanks to Sandi, and to those of you who advised her about how to get Strawberry Season back for me. Thank you to the volunteer, too, who released it. I've proofed Books one and two in this wonderful trilogy and had bought books for Sandi to scan and for me to proof the third book. I'll be getting on it tomorrow once I've checked in Mr. Monk on Patrol, from a wonderful scan done by Jamie. Just 30 pages to go.

Bookshare has the Monk novels and they are laugh out loud funny. I hope many of you will give them a try. They'll brighten your reading landscape. Jamie has been consistently faithful seeing that they have been added to the collection. She's a marvel of generosity, scanning many books and putting holds on the ones she knows some of us care deeply about.

As for Island Wife, The Wind From the Hills and The Strawberry Season, by Jessica Sterling, they are fabulous historical romances with deep character study and very concerned with family dynamics set in the Scottish Hebrides near the end of the nineteenth century. They are intelligently written and the type of series you can lose yourself in. They are not formulaic, pot boiler, cookie cutter romances. The transcend the genre in general.

I fear we have a shortage of scanners. It takes much more work tracking down books that aren't in the collection yet, and we all have to be willing to do the work knowing it may be replaced by PQ versions of our books, but I love the process of making a proof as error free as I can, love the reading of the book as I proof and therefore still feel my efforts were worthwhile even when a book I've worked on is replaced, though occasionally, the volunteer copy has better navigation and other perks for Bookshare readers than the PQ books.

I've never seen the check out list as short as it is now. Is it because Bookshare is emphasizing textbooks and working harder at training volunteers who can describe graphics? Since we blind readers were so active in helping Bookshare during its start up years, it's sad to see our role diminishing.

Since I love hunting down books to add, there is no shortage for Evan to scan for me to proof as well as for other generous scanners to scan.

If there is interest, I have about 20 books I'll be happy to give to anyone who has the time to scan them in the next month or so. I don't want to proof them and don't want them returned. I'd just love to see them in the collection and if there are willing scanners, their presence could plump up the check out page a little.

Let me know if there's an interest and I'll post a list. I sure would like to get them out of this book clogged room.

I also have a box of mostly lighthearted books with graphics that I don't feel equal to the task of describing. if There's an interest in those, I'll post that list, too. I just don't want to overwhelm anyone with more scanning than they have time for, something I've accidentally done before.

Keep up the good work, all of you. I remain glad to be in your company.

Always with love,

Lissi

Always with love,

Lissi

----- Original Message ----- From: "misha" <mishatronics@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 11:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Accent marks


Those sneaky French.  According to this web page

http://french.lovetoknow.com/French_Accent_Marks

They do have umlauts (though usually called trema when it is used in French words). I say sneaky because, I always thought naive used an acute accent, but the table on the web page clearly uses naive as an example of umlaut accent and it clearly fits the case of pronouncing each vowel separately. I still think in most American books an acute accent is almost always used for naive when it occurs in an English sentence. Now if it's in a French quote, I guess it better be the trema or the gendarmes will be on the way.

I can't help much with how to produce it, though. In MS Word under insert there is a symbols item which brings up a table of all kinds of different characters, but it's hard enough for me to find what I want in there (which is why I don't have any of them is this email), much less how a blind person would.

Misha

On 6/2/2012 6:25 PM, Kim Friedman wrote:
Hi, Cindy I think it's another word for that umlaut-like mark. I found the word on a site where it was talking about French accent marks (they do seem to have a lot of them). Regards, Kim.
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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Accent marks

I'm curious. What is traemma?
(the answer to your question, though, is umlaut.smile

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    *From:* Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    *Sent:* Saturday, June 2, 2012 6:16 AM
    *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Accent marks

Hi, Ali, what sort of accent mark is alt 0237? Is it that I umlaut or
    traemma I want? Please write back and let me know. Regards, Kim
    Friedman.

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    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Accent marks


    If your computer has a number pad, make sure numlock is turned on.
    Hold
    down the alt key, and press the following numbers: 0237.
    See also: http://usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes/accents-alt-codes.php

    On 02-Jun-12 01:01, Kim Friedman wrote:
    > How does one make the accent mark on the computer for the I in the
> word naive? I know how it's done for literary Braille, but I have no
    > idea how it's supposed to be printed. I could sure use help with
    this.

    > Regards, Kim Friedman.
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