[bksvol-discuss] Attn. Brianl Miller RE: Re: text format submissions
- From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:18:37 -0800
Brian,
If the books you're speaking of are the ones you sent to Bookshare on CD oh so
many moons ago, they're beginning to trickle up! I finally found a volunteer
who had the time, energy and willpower to deal with your amazing collection.
Best,
Marissa
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Muysenberg
Sent: Tue 1/25/2005 11:33 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: text format submissions
Brian,
You may want to consider resaving your books as RTF files before
submitting, just to make sure page breaks aren't lost. If you don't want to
mess with that, please still submit the books.
When I validate books, I sometimes specifically look for text files, so I
can download them onto my Braille Lite. I much prefer to edit in braille,
rather than speech, and the Braille Lite doesn't read RTF files.
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Miller
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: text format submissions
I have several hundred books that are in text form. They are in TXT format
because I scanned them and then converted them in order to download them to my
Road Runner device more easily, which only accepted text files. Then my
computer crashed, so I lost the original scans, but I had the text files on zip
disks.
This collection of mine is rather unique, containing hundreds of history
monographys, novels, travel books, and a variety of titles that are not on
bookshare.
As a Ph.D history student I read constantly, and have a pretty massive
collection.
So, do we want to toss out this resource because they are in text files?
I have the books, so it is no skin off my nose, but what about everyone else?
Brian Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Leonardi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] text format submissions
Hi, all.
Let me start by saying that I need to say something but I'm a bit
frustrated so please don't think me rude. The fact of the matter is that
bookshare does indeed allow text format submissions. Not all txt formatted
files have the page breaks missing... I have validated a few that did have page
breaks. If you have a problem validating txt files, don't do it. It's very
simple. Until bookshare states that txt files will no longer be accepted, we
as validators need to deal with it. I don't think it's right to come down on
submitters for using the txt format. I'm not a submitter so I don't know why
people use this format, but they must have a reason. We should be grateful
that these submitters are taking the time to bother scanning books for us to
read. Personally, I appreciate the time they take to submit... even if some of
them are using txt format.
Lisa
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