[bksvol-discuss] Re: First Message from Newest Volunteer
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:13:16 -0800
Hi Kane,
Yes, the page numbering definitely matters and needs to be compliant with
the book. You can have Kurzweil keep blank pages in the book. Under the
settings menu in "recognition" settings there is an option to keep blank
pages. If you enable this, and save this setting in your default settings,
you will have the proper number of pages in the book, and Kurzweil will
announce which pages are recognized as blank.
Also, a VERY important setting that needs to be saved in Kurzweil 1000 is in
the settings menu under Conversion. The first item in this menu is settings
for opening documents. Under the option for rtf documents (which is the
format in which you'll be submitting your book to bookshare) you need to
disable the "split long pages" option. And always save this setting under
your default settings. If you do not make this change to your settings, the
page numbering in your rtf document is likely to be inaccurate, different
from what is actually in the book, because Kurzweil may and often does,
insert page breaks where the book didn't have them, and will result in
rejection of your book due to inaccurate page numbering and improper number
of page breaks.
It's great to have you as a new volunteer! Happy scanning! And feel free
to ask questions if you have them. We all did in the beginning. I
certainly know I had tons of questions when I started volunteering.
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kane Brolin
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 6:28 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] First Message from Newest Volunteer
Hi, folks. I just signed up this week to be a Bookshare volunteer.
Not that I intend to be a power contributor at this time; but I've heard
about Bookshare and have wanted to scan books for long enough that I decided
in the new year I need to do something about my interest and get onboard.
Anyway, I'm now scanning a novel entitled "The Last Prince of the Mexican
Empire," a really interesting historical fiction work by a fairly new author
named C.M. Mayo whose work has not as yet been officially produced in
accessible format. Since I'm not yet even a Bookshare consuming member as
yet, I have a very basic question:
At this point I'm scanning this book mainly for my own consumption; but when
I'm done I do intend to send "The Last Prince ..." up to Bookshare. As
probably often happens, my pagination doesn't exactly line up with the page
numbering of the book itself. A couple of pages at the front of this book
are blank, so Kurzweil never rendered them.
A couple of other pages contain illustrations that obviously are not
rendered, either. So does it matter that I have done 96 pages of scanning
so far according to Kurzweil, but that in terms of the official book
citation I'm only up to Page #91? Or does it matter that in one case I go
from Page #67 to Page #70, since 68-69 are taken up with an illustration?
I presume that when a book is edited, you try to make this all as consistent
and accurate as possible so that future readers can make accurate citations
if they're referring to a book they have read--say, in an academic paper. I
am making sure that the book's official page numbers are rendered properly.
So should I be concerned about how many pages my document contains compared
to the book's officially published length? What I'll send is a rough draft.
I know I won't have the time to do a really careful proofread.
Yes, I have run across the scanning guidelines on Bookshare's Web site, and
I'll look these over carefully before uploading. I'm just asking for a
general principle here.
Kind regards,
-Kane
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