[bksvol-discuss] Re: Frustration over missed opportunities for perfection
- From: "mickey" <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:54:52 -0400
Lissi, your wisdom is, as always, valued.
Sometimes we just need to step back and remember what things were like when
we were in school.
Thanks.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:21 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Frustration over missed opportunities for
perfection
Dear Booksharian Friends,
As a devoted and very careful validator, I'd be disappointed to find that
a book I uploaded was full of strange and distracting characters because
of something I didn't know I should be checking. But, this doesn't worry
me as it once did.
Bookshare made a huge improvement for all of us when it gave us permission
to take books from the collection and make corrections to them without
having to start from scratch with a rescan. Now, if I learn one of the
books I've spent dozens of hours validating has a rash of unplanned
characters, I can ask Claire or Carrie to look at it and help me
understand the problem. Then they will give the book back to me from step
one and allow me to make the necessary corrections instead of the old
method of starting from the beginning, having to find someone willing to
rescan. getting a validator and getting a BSO approved.
As Robert said, in the case of the books with the a circumflexes, a simple
find and replace will put the book in fine shape again, something which
might only take five minutes...problem solved.
New problems accompany any kind of progress. Though they take us by
surprise and we have to figure out how to solve them, eventually we move
ahead and overall end up with major improvements.
Through the frustration, I've learned to understand how to find and
replace smart quotes and how to tell word not to put them in
automatically. I'm also reminded of how much I appreciate the staff at
Bookshare for instituting the policy of putting books from the collection
back on step one where willing volunteers can quickly fix them.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Frustration over missed opportunities for
perfection
Having good daisy software and good braille translating software might
help.
E.
At 05:44 PM 5/29/2008, you wrote:
I think we have two groups of people we're working for--those who need
the material in print--DAISY, and those who can't visually utilize print.
The more BS progresses, the less we blind are able to turn out the
material expected for the print-users.
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