No. I just don't remember Who's scanning it <grin>. It may well have been you. Keep your copy coming.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning and Whom the Gods
O.K. If someone else is scanning it, I'll cancel my request for the book. G.Cindy --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:It's coming out Very badly and I think someone else has taken that project. I hope my copy is just substandard. I quit on it 200 pages in when I realized that inner margin problems effected one quarter of the pages. Sorry.----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:02 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning and Whom the Gods > Gary, > > Is "Whom the Gods Would Destroy" what you're switching > from? Neither Judy nor I scan--we just validate. I'm > willing to validate what you scan if you submit it and > put Hold for Cindy on it. It will take a while, > though, since Judy isn't in any hurry and I have a few > other things to do first. I will do it before the huge > volumes I have downloaded, though. > > However, if someone else wants to do a fresh scan of > it, please post here so Gary and I both know. > > G.Cindy > > --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm switching to Rescuing Sprite, Marc Levin, and > Empire, Orson Scott Card. > If someone's doing them, let me know. > >> You might get a better put together copy than I did. >> It would have scanned >> great except for those 20 footnotes and the inner >> margins. I was getting >> accuracy numbers which the footnotes threw Way off, >> but, even with the >> margins were 99.3 or so. The good pages were coming >> in at 99.7 and up. >> There was no way to get the stuff in the margin so >> that the first character >> on some pages on lots of lines wouldn't come out. I >> found one paperback >> from Canada for $3 and ordered it just to read the >> book. My copy won't be >> usable here. Looks like a great book.>> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 8:42 PM >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Whom The Gods >> >> >> > I'd be happy to do it, if you don't want to, Judy, >> but >> > it will take a while because I still have 2 books >> that >> > must be done first--and others that can probably >> wait >> > if you're in a hurry for the book. >> > >> > Let me know what you want to do. >> > >> > G.Cindy >> > >> > --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> This one's going to take some work. There are >> about >> >> 20 footnotes at the >> >> bottoms of pages which are printed in a >> >> handwritten-like script. It can >> >> drop a 99.5 page to 85, and is completely >> gibberish. >> >> I've tried it with >> >> optimizing and grayscale. I could try 400 >> >> resolution and will now that I've >> >> thought of it. 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