[bksvol-discuss] Re: Got my first book to validate and some questions: Volunteers: how much work is realistic
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:46:04 -0500
I would suggest leaving the page numbering problem alone. Adding page
numbers wouldn't be particularly desirable, because they wouldn't be the
same as the original book, and the bookshare system will give some anyway.
Page breaks aren't required either. Basically, if you can't fix it to make
it like the original it is best to leave problems alone. Delete the strange
numbers all over the place if they serve no useful purpose. :-)
If that was a text file all that is a lot more likely.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "shannon" <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Got my first book to validate and some
questions: Volunteers: how much work is realistic
> Jana,
> I am reading it so I think I will just delete them. I had another
thought.
> After I finish checking this book out and fixing it I could let word put
> page numbers in it. I know that the page numbers won't match the text copy
> but there would be at least a place marker for the next reader to know
where
> the were reading should they have to pick the book back up. What do you
> think? Is that a bad thing to do? I don't want to do anything that may
get
> me into trouble. I could make note of the page number changes when I
submit
> the book.
> Shannon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:43 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Got my first book to validate and some
> questions: Volunteers: how much work is realistic
>
>
> > Hi, Shannon! If you're fairly certain that all of the text is there,
you
> > can either delete the page numbers or leave them alone. If you're
> planning
> > on reading through the book anyway, I would suggest deleting them as you
> go.
> > Take care!
> >
> > Jana
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:26 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Got my first book to validate and some
> > questions: Volunteers: how much work is realistic
> >
> >
> > > Sharon, regarding your page number problem...This is probably caused
by
> > the
> > > changing of the font from large print to regular print in Word, and
> > > especially so if somewhere along the way the file got converted to a
> Word
> > > document. If the original submission was in RTF, and if the scanner
> > turned
> > > on the option to save page breaks, then the numbering should be fairly
> > > consistent. I might release the book and then download it again to
get
> a
> > > fresh start. If the problem of page numbers appearing anywhere
> throughout
> > > the book is still there, then it was a scanning issue and now out of
> your
> > > easy control, and I suggest that you not worry about trying to fix it.
> > If,
> > > however, the page breaks and numbering are consistent in the fresh
> > download,
> > > then it will be easy to put in page numbers where they don't currently
> > exist
> > > or fix them where they are messed up. Bottom line BookShare
> requirements
> > > don't require page numbers to be present, consistent or accurate, and
> it's
> > > your call as the validator if you want to try to fix it or just work
on
> > the
> > > actual text.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps, and welcome to the pool of volunteers!
> > >
> > > Peace and Hope,
> > >
> > > Donna
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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