[bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
- From: Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:46:56 -0500
I agree, and Kenneth, I have read and enjoyed many of your
submissions. Don't let anyone discourage you from contributing to the
collection.
Pam
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:43:37 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, Kenneth! First of all, I agree that singling out the work of one
>volunteer in a public forum is inappropriate. As has already been pointed
>out, it is fine and often necessary to post a message requesting that a
>submitter send missing pages to a validator if possible.
>
>We are all learning new ways to improve the quality of Bookshare. If you
>can tell where those pictures begin, you may want to follow Guido's advice
>to place those at the end of the actual text, unless the captions contribute
>to it. Thanks for your work!
>
>Jana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kenneth A. Cross
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:03 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
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> To begin with, Guido, I deeply regret that you find my work so shoddy as
>to find it necessary to comment on it in a public forum. Having said that,
>I want to point out to you that most of the eight or nine hundred books I
>have on the system are as readable as most.
>
> Having gotten that out of my system, there are some helps you can give me.
>How does one maintain page integrity when twenty or thirty unnumbered pages
>of pictures intervene throughout the text? Also, how does one maintain
>pagination when one switches a file from Kurzweil to RTF?
>
> The fact of the matter is that, even with version 9.1 of Kurzweil, I
>generate a lot of blank pages when translating to rtf.
>
> Finally, I don't really scan books for BookShare; I scan them for myself
>and I read most of them. If BookShare doesn't want them, I'll stop
>submitting them. I will, however, maintain my BookShare membership, because
>I think it is an excellent service.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Guido Corona
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:42 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
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> Kenneth, hopefully with the new patch you obtained from Kurzweil you
>will no longer experience the amazing proliferation of spurious page breaks.
>That should make it much easier for you to perform a page integrity check on
>your books prior to submission. It is truly of the utmost importance that
>you do so, because while it will take you about 10 minutes to check the
>book and remove spurious pages, an perhaps an extra 15 to integrate any
>missing pages, the page integration step itself -- if left to the proofing
>pool -- may take several additional days of back and forth with reviewers
>until it is addressed and solved.
> As you can imagine, that is not effective use of anyone's time.
>
> If you would like to receive some tips on how to perform a page
>integrity check quickly and effectively, please let me know. I will be
>happy to oblige, either on the list or privately.
>
> Guido
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>
> Guido D. Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> IBM Research,
> Phone: (512) 838-9735
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
>
>
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> "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Just possibly, it would be best to begin by communicating, if possible,
>with
> the individual who submitted the book in the first place.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 1:08 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
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> > Hi Pam,
> > When you find these books with multiple pages missing it would be a
>good
> > thing to report them, either directly to the Bookshare staff or to the
> list
> > so that I can forward your comments to the staff. And if you report
>this
> to
> > the list chances are that someone would be really helpful and track
>down a
> > copy of the book to scan the missing pages.
> > Kellie
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