[bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:43:38 -0500
Hi, Merrill! Sounds like you're right, the note (Continued on Page 2) is
the way to go. You might also include a note before the text that is being
continued, maybe (Continued from Page 1). I think that's the only way to go
with this one. <Smile> Blessings!
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Merrill Louise" <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 11:00 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
> I think your idea has potential--passing the buck when it comes to
difficult
> books for scanners, but what I am after is how to conceptualize the
project.
> If [continued on next page] will take care of the problem, if identifying
a
> symbol to use for bullets in a braille document will work, I can deal with
> that. It's the visual complexity of a page that is defeating me. Someone
> would have to decide, if the book was recorded linearly, what to do,
too --
> journal entries are at the end of each chapter -- journal entries are on a
> separate tape -- or I guess links to the person's name so you can decide
> when to read their entries, but we are dealing with a linear presentation
> at this point and a limited spoken or braille "view" of the material.
>
> And, as you say, I don't have unlimited time, but I think sharing good
> material is worthwhile.
>
> 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: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:16 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
>
>
> > 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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