[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes

Hi again,

  I agree with Mary on this one.  You're quite right that the "perfect" copy
may not be perfect, but, I do think there would be many fewer errors, and
frankly I can live with dwarfs/dwarves a lot more easily than I can live
with things like  &*^ etc.  Also, there's an equality issue.  At the point
where we are actually buying the book, we should get the same thing--albeit
in different format--that other readers get, typos and all.
Cheers,
Donna
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:44 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes


> Hi Mary.  Oh, I have done a small amount of scanning before.  I have also
> validated books, some of which have had no work done on cleaning them.  I
> would mostly agree with you that the junk characters are scanning errors
> and not in the original.  My point though is that this is not always the
> case.  Sometimes publishers do make mistakes, so you don't know that the
> "perfect" printed copy is really perfect.
>
> As far as old research archives, you are correct in that we could pay for
> access to each article as well as anyone.  I was simply thinking that it
> would be nice.  I think you mentioned using Kurzweil previously.  If so,
> you can easily recognize images.  Just either print the image to the
> virtual printer or open the image directly.  This works very well for .tif
> files.  I think other OCR packages have this feature also.
>
> As far as your comment on book scanning, no I do not scan books.  It takes
> more effort than I care for.  I can validate instead.  Also, my Kurzweil
> seems to constantly crash so I doubt if it would make it through an entire
> book if it had to.
>
> Most libraries do not have any OTR books and if they do they are most
> likely not current.  A bunch of them have been released in the pas tcouple
> of years but even for the public they are expensive.  We are talking about
> $35 per book.  I really cannot justify that and I doubt if my library has
> them.  No, I am not going to look because I couldn't scan them anyway.
>
>
>

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