[bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:16:43 -0700 (PDT)
How about passing the buck? (grin). Both books sound
as if they have a lot of problems. If I were you
(which I'm not, nor am I in your line of work, so I
don't have any ethical problems with what I'm about to
suggest), I'd use the books for my purposes and when I
was finished with them, if I thought they'd be useful
to the bookshare members, I'd mail the books to the
folks at Benetech and let them deal with them. Or, if
I wanted to keep copies for the future and felt that
it wouldn't be right to make copies for myself, I'd
write to the publishers and ask them to donate copies
to Benetech. If the clever Benetech folks can't figure
out the best way to do it, probably they can contact
the publishers and ask for permission to re-organize
the books.
O.K., so I'm copping out. But your time and effort is
valuable, and between your work for bookshare and your
pastoral duties, and, if you have one, your family,
there may be better uses for said time and effort that
trying to make those two books readable for bookshare
at the moment.
Cindy
--- Merrill Louise <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> If I moved the text to keep it together, page breaks
> would become irrelevant. Text from pages 1 and 2
> would appear on page 1 and text on page 1 would be
> moved to page 2.
>
> In another book I am scanning slowly, I have the
> same problem. There's the text and in side bars and
> in the body, there are journal entries from five or
> six different people. You'll be reading the body
> text, come across a partial journal entry, go back
> to the text, come upon another partial journal
> entry, maybe go back to the text, maybe go back to
> the previous journal entry or go onto a third
> journal entry. I tried just moving the journal
> entries to the end of the chapter. I can kind of
> match up the pieces, but in the first chapter, I
> ended up with a paragraph that I don't know to whom
> it belongs! It's an oversized book, too and I really
> wish it wasn't laid out this way because it is
> interesting, both the text and the journal entries.
> They don't, by the way, closely correlate with one
> another. The preface says you can read the text,
> read the journals, read them together, read one
> first and then the other or the other way round so
> which page they appear on is not important. If I
> were to finish this book, put it into decent shape
> and upload it, you would end up with journal entries
> on unnumbered pages at the end of each chapter and
> some of the chapter pages would be blank because no
> body text appears on them.
>
> Merrill Louise, Pastor
> The Judson Fellowship
> Jamestown, New York
> cell/office 716.969.2840
> "With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am
> glad because of God my Savior. (Luke 1:46-47)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jana Jackson
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:35 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
>
>
> Hi, Merrill! Sharon's suggestion is probably the
> best one, and I don't believe it's considered to be
> a violation to handle textbooks in this way. But
> were you saying that when you do this, it causes the
> page breaks to be in the wrong place?
>
> Jana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sharon
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 4:25 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
>
>
> I'd probably place the material together so that
> it flows more naturally. It drives me crazy when
> stuff is picked up several pages later. But then
> again, maybe we are not supposed to do so. Sharon
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