[bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters

  • From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:03:26 -0400

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



  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 



  Guido D. Corona
  IBM Accessibility Center,  Austin Tx.
  IBM Research,
  Phone:  (512) 838-9735
  Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx

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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


  > 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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