[bksvol-discuss] Re: Newbie
- From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:33:56 -0700
Hi Lea,
Welcome as a newby. I have just joined recently as a scanner/user and a
volunteer. In the last 24 hours being on the list I have already picked up
some things.
Kaitlyn
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pascha Lea
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:07 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Newbie
Hi,
Thanks for the welcome. I'm sorry I haven't responded until now. My mother
had surgery last week so I was away taking care of her.
I've already noticed that sometimes the scans don't seem to have come out
clearly. I was working on a management text book that, unfortunately, lost
two entire chapters to bad scanning. (I ended up rejecting it - I hope that
was the right thing to do). Another book I reviewed seemd to have the last
word or two lopped off the end of some of the scanned pages - I know that is
a common error while scanning.
I wasn't sure how in-depth the validation process should be. When we had a
scanner, I used to scan some books for my husband and for those I would
spend ages making sure that all typos and badly scanned items were fixed.
At the moment, I am definintely doing spell-checks on all validation items.
For cases such as those I mentioned above, I am more than willing to try to
find a hard-copy of the book to fix dropped words/sentences, etc. - but it
would more than likely take me a week to do so. Can you keep books for
longer than a week under such circumstances?
Anyway, I hope to learn loads more from this group! Thanks again for the
warm welcome.
Lea
Kellie Hartmann <hart0421@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Lea, and welcome. It's really nice to have a few sighted volunteers here.
:-) Sometimes books don't scan too well, and it's easiest for a sighted
volunteer to work on those if they can get a print copy of the book.
Another project that sighted volunteers sometimes do if they enjoy it is
writing picture descriptions for the illustrations in children's books.
So welcome, and I hope you can find things to work on that you enjoy
reading.
Kellie
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