[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books rated excellent recently added to the collection that are really only good
- From: "Dixie" <BlueHerons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:29:44 -0400
How does one know definitively if it is a scanning error vs. an editor error
in a book?
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From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books rated excellent recently added to the
collection that are really only good
I've read Three Hearts and Three Lions several times my favorite edition has
3 errors--turth for truth, bas for bears, and beat for bat. Once I would
have corrected them. Now, I think they make up part of the flavor of that
edition. There's a first edition version published by the SF Bookclub, some
of the wording changes between first and second editions. Which was the
author's intention? He published it both ways. If they're different, I let
them be different.
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From: "Carrie Karnos" <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books rated excellent recently added to the
collection that are really only good
> The Bookshare policy is to correct scanning errors, but not change the
> content, as Lora said. I will move sections of text around, when it makes
> it clearer to the readers what the flow of the text is, but I don't add or
> delete words. As a case in point, a few days ago, someone donated a book
> where in 2 different instances, the bottom 2 lines on one page are
> repeated on the top 2 lines of the next page. I can't remove the repeated
> text (as much as I'd like to!) but I'm going to add a validator's note
> that says these lines are repeated in the book, it's not a scanning error.
> This is solely to prevent confusion. I imagine I'd get a lot of people
> writing in to say that the scanner messed up, when it's the book that's
> messed up.
>
> HTH, Carrie
>
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> From: Lora <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:22:43 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books rated excellent recently added to the
> collection that are really only good
>
> Oh no, no, no. We should never correct facts like that. As was said by
> someone else, it violates the author and publisher copyright. And we
> should
> have the same experience as the sighted public in our reading.
>
> More to the point, and please understand that I mean no offense, I want to
> read what the author said, not what anyone thinks he or she should have
> said.
>
> In fact, I'd love to see Bookshare make a policy regarding this, if they
> haven't already. We should not change content, only correct the errors
> that
> were introduced by the scanning process.
>
>
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Curtis Delzer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:09 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books rated excellent recently added to the
> collection that are really only good
>
> Well, if it is an obvious error, if we are absolutely sure of the correct
> title, (as in my case with the Roy Orbison book which I should submit for
> review, then I will do it. If I am not sure, I will not even begin to get
> the idea I should change it. All Roy Orbison fans should know the correct
> title of that song referred too in that book, but if you were not a fan
> or
> didn't know the titles of his songs, then you might think that "breaking
> up
> is hard to do," is correct, when in fact, it is not. So, since I know, I
> changed it to "breaking up is breaking my heart," the correct title. It is
> like saying, in this case that president Truman was elected in 1960, when
> in
> fact, it was not. :)
> :) <grin>
> Authors are human, they do not know all the facts or they can, even in
> book
> form, make mistakes. We are not "authors" as such, but if you have a fact,
> it is a fact after all, and whether or not it is a book, published or not,
> if that fact is continually allowed to flourish via your hands as
> "editors"
> as such, then you are responsible if you do not change it to the correct
> facts, if your ground is as certain as the rock that is the essence of
> this
> planet. <grin>
>
> Curtis Delzer
>
>
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> From: "eric troup" <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:09 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books rated excellent recently added to the
> collection that are really only good
>
>
> Agreed. And if it's even a little unclear, I believe you have to give
> the author/editor the benefit of the doubt. It's a slippery slope as
> is.
>
> On 18 Apr 2008, at 03:43, Cindy Ray wrote:
>
>> Well, we were admonished to fish the kinds of errors mentioned when I
>> was studying the braille transcription program at NLS. However, you do
>> have to be sure the change should be made. Most of the time you can
>> tell.
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