The Bookshare conversion tools automatically move page numbers to the top. If you have seen books in the collection with the page numbers at the bottom I think they are probably older books that entered the collection before the tools were given that capability. However, I do not trust the conversion tools to be that smart. When some page numbers appear at the bottom and other page numbers appear at the top do the conversion tools know to move the ones at the bottom to the top and leave the rest? In the past I have asked on this list and never gotten an answer. I suppose no one knows. My solution is this. When I am scanning a book I do it one or two pages at a time and preproof each scan before moving on to the next page anyway. Since I am reading along for scanning errors it is not a lot of trouble to move the page numbers to the top so I do that. At least I do it in books where the page numbers appear on both the top and bottom of different pages.
On 10/10/2012 11:57 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:
My answers are in between, although I know you have already gotten some excellent advice on person assignations. <<<Iâm proofing a book with italicized diary entries at the beginning of several chapters. These entries are all from different characters entering into the same journal, so each entry is also in a different font. Do these entries get any special attention? Do I put them into a different font, or do I make some sort of description about them? Or do I format them in the same font as the rest of the book?>>>Everything submitted is changed to a single font, so that is time wasted. I would retain the italics and connote speaker in square brackets as Cindy suggested. <<<Also, while Iâm writing here, do the location of page numbers need to be consistent? The scan has the majority of page numbers on the bottom of the page, but on each new chapter page the number is at the top. Iâve been moving them to the bottom to make them consistent, but Iâm not sure what the âruleâ is. We have been told it does not matter the tool fixes inconsistent top or bottom page numbering, but that has not been my experience. My preference is top, for ease of proofing, but I have seen it duplicated in many books as an unspoken and spoken, but both visual, number, but my current reading tool does not work on the Mac and downloading is not even web accessible in Mountain Lion, so I cannot get more specific right now. In my experience I have found fewer errors with bottom page numbering, but if my numbers are already on top, I do not move them, especially as it helps me for working and comparing to the print book.Hope I didn't muddy the waters! Welcome to Bookshare, hope you love it as much as our family does!Valerie
