[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookmarking
- From: Marilyn Beasley <mbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:03:56 -0400
Hi, Roger.
Congrats on all your progress with the computer, that's really very
good.
Regarding leaving a bookmark, I'm sure there's probably a "computer"
way of doing it,
but I just do it like this. When I've been working and I decide I'm
done, I type three
ampersands, like this: &&&. You can use percentage signs, your own
name, anything
that is unlikely to actually show up in the book. Then I save my
document and close down
the word processing software.
When I'm ready to start again, I open up the document I want to work
on, and "Search"
for &&& and it goes directly to where I was -- mid-sentence, at the
start of a paragraph or
page, just wherever I was when I typed them before I saved the document.
Can you try that?
Hugs,
Marilyn
On Jul 20, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx wrote:
First, let me tell you about some progress I have made in
ameliorating my technological illiteracy. As I mentioned earlier
everything I know about using a computer I have learned by sitting
down at the keyboard and teaching myself. Okay, there has been a
little on line help like I received here. As I also mentioned
earlier, before I tried out Bookshare.org I had never downloaded or
uploaded a document. The only downloads I had ever done were some
software and some software updates. Well, I have for some time now
been reading some Project Gutenberg books on line because I had no
idea how to download them. However, now that I have learned how to
download Bookshare books I wondered if my newfound knowledge would
help me at Project Gutenberg. Well, I just went there and downloaded
a book. It was surprisingly easy and I felt like I should have been
doing that a long time ago.
Now I have a question. After having had some trouble submitting the
first book I validated I am now working on another one. I , of
course, cannot finish the whole thing in one sitting, but every time
I go to my documents on my computer and open the book I find myself
at the beginning. I have been coping by noting the page I am on when
I quit and arrowing up until I get to the beginning and then type in
the number of the page I left off on. That number will, of course,
be deleted before I submit it. The problem is that when I open up
the book again and am reminded of the page number it is a bit time
consuming to find it again. I just arrow down until I come across it
by stopping and checking now and then and, Of course, arrowing up
again if I overshoot. Do you guys have any suggestions about how to
more efficiently mark one's place?
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