If they did it poorly the scan took very little time. Your fixing it up encourages the scanner to do a poor job next time. Please reject.
E. At 11:19 PM 2/22/2009, you wrote:
Guido, But I keep thinking of the hours that went into the scan, and if I can make it an excellent one and at the same time help the scanner to learn how to do better next time, then we have added another excellent scanner to Bookshare. Jill----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>Guido Corona To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 4:55 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: =?utf-8?Q?Book_I_am_reading_has_many_problems_â?â??__should_I_fix_it_o?My opinion is always that we are not in the salvage business. It takes only a couple of hours to rescan a medium size book, while it can take a few dozen hours to fix a bad scan.Nuke it! G. Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: (512) 286-5794 Email: <mailto:guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: <http://www.ibm.com/able>http://www.ibm.com/able 'there is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept' Ansel Adams Jess Killian <jesskillian@xxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/22/2009 06:50 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject[bksvol-discuss] =?utf-8?Q?Book_I_am_reading_has_many_problems_â?â??__should_I_fix_it_o? =?utf-8?Q?r_reject_it??Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:50:38 -0500Hi all, I am currently in the process of reading â??The Murder at The National Museum.â?? Itâ??s a really well scanned book not to mention an excellent read, but there are some problems that I do not know whether I should just fix and submit the book for approval or reject it. For one thing, the book has a number and an extra word in the copyright notice. I could email Pavi and ask her to forward along my questions regarding this matter to the volunteer: thatâ??s not an issue. I think the problem is that there are no page numbers up until page 11 and even then, the page numbers are placed at the beginning of sentences. The page number for page 19 is placed on the line for page 18. In addition, I believe that the submitter does not have page breaks that match the printed addition. On one hand, I would like to reject it because it would take me so long to fix the above mentioned mistakes. I would need to ask the submitter what sentence ended the page and what sentence began the following page so that I could accurately input the page numbers as well as page breaks. This process would need to be done for a good portion of the book. On the other hand, I would like to fix the problems and submit the book for approval due to the fact itâ??s easy for me to fix after I know what information went on what page. My ques tion to the list is: should I reject the book because there are some issues or should I spend time fixing it up with the help of the submitter? Thanks, Jess Jessica Killian Bookshare discussion list email: jesskillian@xxxxxxx Off list email to be used for people who wish to contact me privately : jess_killian@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.---------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.3/1966 - Release Date: 02/22/09 17:21:00__________ NOD32 3879 (20090223) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. <http://www.eset.com>http://www.eset.com
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