[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Books with Playing Card Pictures
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 06:37:03 -0600
Oh, Cindy, you've been excellent help already. Your suggestion about how to
include the cards is awesome, and makes wonderful sense to me. That Bridge
notation makes sense.
And if my Bridge book does contain just what you described, then it should
scan beautifully. I'll take a look, find a few pages with hands, and see
what it does. The problem is the book has gone missing, so I need to
relocate it.
Thanks for your ideas!
Lora
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Hi, Lora,
Your request sent me back to the 10 pages of card game books in my library's
online catalog, and the only ones that weren't illustrated were one that was
1971 and a couple that were even older. So I guess illustrations are "in." I
wonder if television has anything to do with the modern desire to illustrate
everything. smile
I also wonder exactly what "illustrated" means. From what you said, I gather
your book has full-colorpicture of the cards. The bridge column in the paper
shows the hands with the suit symbol only and the card number and letters.
I read Monica's post about reading with screen
readers.
Depending on the illustration you're going to describe, maybe rather than
write out each card, like Ace of Clubs, you could do as in the paper, e.g.,
Diamonds: K,9,7,4,2 (to describe one suit in today[s paper that West is
holding.
If I can be of help, let me know. It may be that the illustrations aren't
really necessary because they illustrate rather than clarify, if you know
what I mean. In some books that I've validated the illustrations move the
story along by showing things that aren't told in the text, but in others
they simply illustrate what the text says.
Cindy R
--- Lora <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cindy,
>
> One thing that would be wonderfully helpful is if you can find a way
> to let me know if a book I'm considering has card pictures, or just
> text names for the cards. Then I can better choose books to buy and
> scan.
>
> For instance, I bought a recently published book on bridge, copyright
> 2001, I think, and every hand contained a picture, to show which cards
> North, South, East and West held. These pictures are essential to the
> text, because you work with the information in the pictures to devise
> strategies and such.
>
> If I gave you a short list of books, would you be able to try to tell
> me which were picture-based, and which were text?
>
> What books did you find in your library that were text-based?
>
> Thanks for everything.
>
> Lora
>
>
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> Cindy
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> Pictures
>
> That's interesting. My Hoyle book on games, admittedly very old, is
> all text except for one picture of a backgammon board. I bought one
> for my card-playing daughters a couple of years ago but I didn't look
> at it that thoroughly.
>
> I wouldn't think that illustrations are necessary, if the instructions
> are clear. I checked my library catalog, and while I see that several
> of the books do have illustrations, at least one does not.
>
> Just my opinion. I prefer getting my information and instruction from
> reading clear text than from looking at pictures.
>
> Cindy R
> Most books on card
> > games use pictures for the
> > cards.
>
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