[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles

I'm willing to do that any time, assuming I can get the book. Just let me know.

G.Cindy

--- On Tue, 5/20/08, Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 10:12 AM
> Hi Jill,
> 
> There are two options.  One is to rescan the whole book, as
> you said, but there's another one which sounds like it
> would take less time.  A sighted person could get the book
> from a library, ask me to put the book back on the download
> list, grab the book from the download list, put in the
> chapter titles WITH protection (like the page number), and
> upload it again.  I approve it and we're done.
> If the book has a table of contents with the chapter titles
> listed, then a visually impaired person could do the same
> thing, using the table of contents to find the correct page
> to put the chapter title and protection. This is what Bob
> Wiley just did with the 3 Theodore Sturgeon books he was
> editing.
> 
> Carrie
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:29:04 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
> 
>  
> Carrie, When we read a book in the collection and 
> find there are no chapter headings, the book otherwise
> being in excellent 
> condition, is there anything that can be done about this
> other than rescanning 
> the book? jill
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Carrie Karnos 
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:02  PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing  story titles
> 
> Hi  Bob,
> 
> I hate to say this, but I checked the first Sturgeon book,
> saw the  several blank lines before each story title,
> approved the book, downloaded the  DAISY version, and the
> story titles are gone.  This is just flat wrong.  I'll
> talk to Engineering about it tomorrow.  I'll leave the
> other  Sturgeon books in the approval queue until this gets
> sorted  out.
> 
> Sorry!  It will get fixed, sooner or later (hopefully 
> sooner!)  Carrie
> 
> 
> -----  Original Message ----
> From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:  bookshare volunteer discussion
> <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent:  Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:03:07 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing  story titles
> 
> I just wanted to give you kind folks a follow-up on the 
> missing story titles
> in the Theodore Sturgeon  collections.
> 
> Originally, I noticed that just about all the titles of 
> the stories in one
> of these collections was missing. My first thought was  to
> blame the
> validator for not noticing this obvious error and fixing
> it.  It turned out
> that Misha was the hapless recipient of my anger, and I
> know  that he's a
> careful validator and wouldn't let something like that
> go. So  then I thought
> of the scannor, which was Carrie. Carrie is also an 
> excellent scannor and
> wouldn't let something like that get by. I was 
> beginning to think of things
> like divine intervention and demon  posession.
> 
> I asked Carrie to send me the original document which was 
> submitted by the
> validator, which she did, and "ah ha!" those
> ppesky titles  were in place. In
> fact, they seemed to be grinning up at me as if to say... 
> but, I digress.
> 
> It turns out that the infamous stripper was doing the 
> dirty to this
> collection.
> 
> A short check of the bookshare collection  shows that there
> are three other
> collections of Mr. Sturgeon's stories  missing story
> titles in the bookshare
> collection.
> 
> I have just  uploaded those three books with, I hope, story
> titles in tact.
> It turns out  that
> the solution is quite simple: I simply put a paragraph mark
> before and  after
> all page breaks, and that damned stripper is fooled into
> leaving my  titles
> alone.
> 
> Just wanted to give a follow-up to this pesky  problem.
> 
> Bob
> 
> "Strippers belong in bars, not
> libraries."--Author  unknown.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent:  Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:34 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story  titles
> 
> 
> > hmm, makes me wonder if the "stripper,"
> should be used  at all? Aren't we
> > sophisticated enough by this time to handle the 
> vagaries of what is
> > needed?
> > Or, maybe not?
> >
> >  Curtis Delzer
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Devorah  Greenstein"
> <DGreenstein@xxxxxxx>
> > To:  <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:31 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re:  Missing story titles
> >
> >
> > Ouch ouch. Like Bob, I am more  confused now. Plus I
> don't have the
> > benefit of ever experiencing what  these books are
> like after I validate
> > them because I'm sighted. So  it's like
> dropping many hours of work into
> > a black hole and hoping for  the best. And I, like
> many of you guys, am a
> > perfectionist. So I go  over every word, check
> spellings in weird foreign
> > names, check  everything, make it as perfect as I can,
> and upload it.
> >
> > But  then what is happening to my work?
> >
> > I always do the wonderful  ^p^m^p thing so that there
> are blank lines on
> > either side of the page  breaks. But I have NOT been
> re-typing each page
> > number on the top of a  page if the page numbers are
> at the bottom.
> >
> > I have left page  numbers at the bottom of the page.
> Am I now correct in
> > my  understanding that they all get wiped out? Even if
> there is a blank
> >  line between the page number and the following page
> break?
> >
> > I  do put a page number on the top of the first page
> of a chapter. It
> >  just makes sense to do that. But is it mandatory put
> all other page
> >  numbers at the top of each page?
> >
> > If the mysterious stripper is  so smart can't it
> tell numeric characters
> > from alphabetic characters  and leave numeric page
> numbers at the bottom
> > of the  page?
> >
> > Devorah
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