[bksvol-discuss] Re: If text is too good

Mike,  unfortunately you did not provide us with the title, author, 
copyright information needed to eve n start guessing about the provenence 
of the book you are working on.  In general,  if you are concerned about a 
book, you should consider providing such information to your postings. 
Otherwise,  to a hypothetical question you can only get a hypothetical 
answer.

I might be able to determine if the book in question is a publisher's 
etext based on things appearing or missing from the front/back of the 
book,  original file name, size, dosname, etc....

Thanks,  Guido


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I'm right now working on validating a book that almost seems too perfect 
leading me to question whether the submission might be an etext from 
somewhere else.
It's definitely not webb-Braille or another blindness group; but 
formatting seems perfect and I am not coming up with spelling errors.
I certainly don't want to erroneously intimate that something wasn't 
scanned; so what might be some ways of seeking to verify the authenticity 
of a submission without outright questioning the submitter?
Or should I just validate the book indicating my concerns in the comment 
field and let Palo Alto decide for themselves.

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