[bksvol-discuss] Re: Gotta Resubmit CUSP
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:53 -0700
Ok, I must be especially dense this morning, but at the risk of revealing the
depth of my denseness, I will stick my neck out and ask: If the quotes are not
from people, who are they from? <grin> No, really, I am curious, as I am
wondering what other kinds of quotes he might have been referring to. I will
have to look for it, but I am sure I read up on the site somewhere, or on
Jake's site, about quotes - from people I imagine <smile> - being a legal
problem in the long synopsis.
Anyhow, I still have to resubmit the book for the other reasons I mentioned.
But I don't have the time for that for a few weeks yet, and I didn't want the
book up there for any time if it was gonna be a legal problem or something.
Thanks much for the help.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Hovas
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: gustavo.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Gotta Resubmit CUSP
Evan,
I can't say for sure whether or not the quotes in the long synopsis are
enough of a problem to cause the book to be removed. Gustavo didn't exactly
cover quotes by people when I spoke to him about the issue. Even if they are a
problem, I'd expect that instead of removing the book from the collection, the
long synopsis would just be removed, or edited since the quote is the first
thing in the synopsis.
Since Gustavo will need to make the call, I'm copying him on the message.
Gerald
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 11:04 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Gotta Resubmit CUSP
Sorry, but I have to resubmit CUSP by Robert A. Metzger, which just appeared
in the collection. I left column detection on when I scanned it to make sure
something at the beginning of the book was not decolumnized, and didn't think
it would make any difference if I left it on. I realized that it was putting
hard returns at the end of every line as I was reading through it, and I tried
to remove many, but I didn't get as many as I had thought. The brf file is
just chock full of indented lines which are not the beginning of paragraphs.
Another problem is this pesky chapter heading thing, which I will have to fix
up. Most of them are in the middle of pages, but that still leaves quite a few
at the beginning of pages. Another problem is that there are quotes in the
long synopsis which is up on the site. I didn't know about the legal problem
with that when I submitted it, and the validater didn't fix it either. Also,
the hard return problem shows up in the long synopsis which you can see if you
want to: Rather than taking a new line when encountering a hard return,
apparently whatever software they have running up there just runs the words
together, so it looks terrible. Sorry about all this stuff. I can only plead
that it was my second submission, and a lack of knowledge about what my scanner
would do if column detection was left on, and a hope that it wouldn't be as bad
as it was. I don't suppose Daisy readers will notice if they read through the
book continuously, but for Braille readers, it is just maddening. The text
quality is very good, though, so people who don't care about the things I have
mentioned may enjoy it and will not have to worry about garbled text or junk
characters or anything like that. But I can't let this stand as it is. I
would appreciate it if someone would go up and look at the long synopsis and
tell me if the quotes in it are permitted on Bookshare's site or not, If not,
then I would imagine that the book will have to be removed until it can be
fixed.
Sorry folks. Live and learn. <smile>
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