[bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:16:40 -0600
Thanks, Mayrie. Yes, I've decided I'll validate it all the way through,
because I'm interested in the topic. I have a few other books to do which
should be quicker validations, though, so I'll finish those off first.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:34 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Finding Soft Hyphens
Hi Lora,
It is just my opinion, but I think that any book that will be
handled by a person willing to read it through is well worth waiting for.
We will all benefit from your reading it through, and as you can renew the
book as many times as you need to do that, time is really of no importance.
So, enjoy the book, in my opinion, take your time, and be proud of the
beautifully edited book that we all using the Bookshare collection will
thank you for. A careful validator is worth several lazy ones, in my
opinion, and to be terribly cliche, "haste makes waste." So, take your
time, and I, at least, thank you for your work.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 04:09 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
>I'm validating a book that has numerous words broken up by soft
>hyphens. I'd like to fix these, especially because they're not words
>at the end of lines or pages, just random words in the middle of
>various lines. I tried selecting the soft hyphen, and copying it into
>the Find box so I could locate other occurrences, but it won't copy and
>paste. Is there an easy way to find this soft hyphen?
>
>This book poses another problem. There are lots of the common scanos
>in it. For instance, 1 for I, rime for time, etc. I've fixed the ones
>I found as I skimmed the book, but many of these won't register in the
>spell checker. I suppose it means I should read them through. The
>real tricky one is "me" for "the." I suspect, if the OCR did that, it
>did some other funky stuff for the letters th. This is a long book.
>It's Buddhism in Action. Knowing I can be a slow validator, should I
>return it, or take the time to read through it. I'm interested in the
>book, and will gladly read it cover to cover, but at over 400 pages,
>this could take me a while. The scan is generally excellent, but there
>are lots of these little OCR quirks.
>
>Advice is welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lora
>
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