[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page numbers?

This whole thing with page numbers being a requirement is new to me but I  
understand it. However, personally, if I am reading a book for fun, 
especially a  fiction book, I don't really care about the page numbers. I just 
skim 
over them  and they actually can break up the flow of reading for me. Of 
course, if it's a  book I'm going to use for school or something, a nonfiction 
book, the page  numbers are important. But, in my opinion and mine alone, I 
am much more  concerned about the quality of a scan rather than the page 
numbers. Personally,  I wouldn't mind reading books without them, at least 
fiction ones, but again, I  know they are important for siting and things for 
papers. But how many people  site fiction books? Maybe Bookshare could only 
require them for nonfiction?  Well, now I'm just rambling. I'll do my best to 
add in page numbers where they  should go, unless I hear otherwise from 
Bookshare. Then, I'll just submit it  with my best guesses for page numbers and 
explain in the comments that the book  was so old the page numbers didn't 
come through on the scan. The text is perfect  so in my opinion, if they don't 
accept it just because a few page numbers may be  off, I think they are 
being too picky. I doubt many people will be siting a  Buffy the Vampire Slayer 
book for anything. Perhaps I am out of line here, but  that is only my 
opinion.
Megan
 
 
In a message dated 6/1/2009 11:31:15 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
rixmix2009@xxxxxxxxx writes:

The first book I ever submitted I did not know or ever even consider  about 
page numbers. I got a nice email from someone who was proofing asking me  
what about pages such and such?  I wondered to myself at first,  what's the 
big deal, the text is all good, and so on.  Then soon I  discovered she was 
correct, there was some missing and  some duplicates.  So lesson learned.  It 
was quite a learning  experience, and ever since I have paid close 
attention to the page numbers as  I scan a book and then look it over to see 
that it 
all is there before I  submit it.  The person who actually has the book in 
hand can save a lot  of worry and problem solving by getting it right at the 
front end of the  project, I believe.  
 
One thing I do now is to also look at the page numbers listed in the  Table 
of Contents when the book has one.  To check to see if the page  numbers 
for the corresponding chapters fall on that page and that there is a  page 
number.  Sometimes there is a blank page at the end of a chapter or  between 
them and it will not have a page number printed but it is part of the  
pagination.  
 
All of the business of how many pages your file  has in your unit, that 
gets sort of strange, and I always just look right away  (so to speak, using 
speech or whatever) to see where pagination begins in the  book, with roman 
numerals, or whatever. They are not always marked, yet may be  reflected in 
the table of contents. So I make sure as best I can that the  pagination works 
all like it is supposed to.  
 
And I do move page numbers to the top even if  they are at the bottom 
myself. I know someone said they thought that might be  changing too much from 
the original. I have to say I do not think it  does.  In fact as a reader, if 
I hear that the page number is at the end  of a page I am usually fooled and 
am thinking I am starting on the next  page.   Some good number of books 
from Bookshare have two page  numbers that do not match together in the text.  
I don't know what is the  reason this happens. I do get used to it, but it 
is a bit confusing and I  think, unnecessary if we who submit take on those 
tasks early on and just pay  attention as we go before submitting.
 
If I am out of line, sorry. Just going off what  I have experienced thus 
far in this little wee world of book  scanning.
 
Thanks.
Rik
 
 
 



From: _Mayrie  ReNae_ (mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx)  
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 8:19 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page numbers?




Hi Megan,
 
    I  have noticed that when Amazon gives a page count, it often includes  
preliminary pages.  Perhaps your page count will match if you add the  
number of preliminary pages, and the number of pages of actual text?   

Good  luck!
 
Mayrie
 
 

 
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Yes, that's the one. It seems that the text portion has 164 pages, that's  
the page count word and my BrailleNote gave me for the part without the 
front  matter but Amazon.com says it should have 176 so I'm not sure what the  
inconsistency is related to. The book scanned great, no duplications or  
omissions so I don't know if I should just insert page numbers at the top of  
each page even though it'll come out shorter than it supposedly should be or  
if we could/should go through and see what each page starts with. 
    I'm new at this, especially the page number  policy,  so just tell me 
what I should do. Oh, can you do me two  favors? Can you tell me what was on 
the title page, they told me I needed to  insert one before the copyright 
when I tried to submit it this morning, how  many Roman Numerals there are and 
how many pages? I want to make sure I get  the title page right and maybe 
Amazon got the page count wrong. Thanks! 
    I loved this book, I have to say. I was surprised  and had just gotten 
it thinking it'd be an easy read, but I really enjoyed  it.
 
 
In a message dated 6/1/2009 6:52:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I think I scanned the book you are referring to, if  it's Halloween Rain.  
I have the book if there are any problems.   I submitted it before BKS's 
page number policy.
Amber
Book blog:
_http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/_ 
(http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/) 
I  have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have  
consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I  
give
you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your  fate.
John Adams
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