[bksvol-discuss] Re: Introduction and lots of questions.
- From: "Larry Lumpkin" <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:12:40 -0500
I'll try to answer some of your questions. I'll put my answers below your
questions. If this doesn'st work for you, my skype name is LarryLumpkin
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Introduction and lots of questions.
Hi. My name's John, I'm blind, and I signed up to submit books recently.
I've got a degree in religious studies with a minor in folklore, so my
nonfiction interests tend to run in that direction. I play a bunch of
instruments from all over the world, more or less well, so that's another
interest. Computers of course, but I suspect that's true of most of us or
we wouldn't be here. OK, on to the questions.
I just got the pearl and openbook 9. I'll try to number these to make them
easier to respond to. So does anybody:
1. Have tips for scanning with pearl? I've noticed for some books, one was
a hard cover and so far as I know has no pictures though I'll check, that
you'll get some pages that are fine, and then some pages that are gibberish,
words/lines out of order, etc. So far as I know I'm holding the book the
same way, holding down each opposite corner, diagonally, to hold the book
open. Is this a lighting issue? I'd assumed the LCD light would be enough
to scan even if the room's dark, but maybe I could put a lamp by the desk
and use that instead? Any tips on how to make sure books stay open and flat
enough, Etc? Basically if you've found a way to get really good scans with
this thing, I'd love to hear about it.
We bought the Pearl and openbook 9 and found the Pearl so unsatisfactory for
books that we returned it but kept open book. I found that book shooting
with the Pearl was unacceptable under any conditions I could think of. I
found it worked very well with flat pieces of mail and paper and books that
were spiral bound but any book with a curved spine was totally
unsatisfactory. I, like you, would love other input on the Pearl. A friend
of mine here also has had unsatisfactory results with books and the Pearl
but is keeping his in hopes it gets better. I didn't have $600 to waste.
2. Bookshare says we want page breaks but not line breaks, how much does
this matter? I for one would like to preserve line breaks in any poetry I
scan.
As for open book. I like version 9 very much. I'd choose the "poetry and
recipe" work flow for poetry and submits like that. My wife, Susan might
address more specific formatting questions for bookshare. I have been a
Kurzweil user for many years and find some features of k1000 that I like
very much such as the ability to shorten the scanner bed with "margin
auto-size" and knowing the confidence after each page or spread scan.
3. If anybody has specifics for working with openbook I'd appreciate those
as well, I've never touched its editing features before. Do you just scan
the whole book and manipulate it later, scan a page at a time, or something
else? What's the magic for removing headers and footers but still
preserving page numbers? How about renumbering pages?
Suppose for instance you have an introduction with Roman numerals for page
numbers, do you leave those unnumbered and just number the rest of the
pages, and if so, how do you do that?
Unfortunately, I've found no way to set the page number to account for
preliminary pages in openbook. What I do is to begin my scan at the point
in the book which I have determined as page 1, and go back and append prior
preliminary material after I finish scanning the book. I am a new open book
user so haven't tried to remove headers and/or footers but think this can be
done. I'd sure back up my work before attempting this though.
That should be enough for now. If anybody would find it easier to talk to
me directly, let me know and I'll throw out my contact info for msn and
skype and such. I know for some people it's easier to just have a
conversation, rather than doing email. I haven't really scanned any books
yet, because I figure if I scan them, I can submit them. So I'm pretty
eager to find out how this all works. I have read the scanning and
proofreading guide BTW.
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