[bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Dilemma
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:14:37 -0800 (PST)
If you mean what I think you mean, that those kinds of
books could be put as is on the download list for
validating or fixing, I agree. In the old days, that
was done. I "fixed" a few.
G.Cindy
--- james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> These kinds of things are why I would like to ask
> that BSO's that don't
> have to be scanned and will not change pagination be
> allowed. I don't know
> how we would prove that it was that type though.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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> James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark
> Inc.,
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
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> Hi, Everyone,
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> I am reading T is for Tresspass by Sue Grafton; I
> downloaded the book from
> bookshare.
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> In the book, many letter t and letter f are
> misrecognized as the letter l.
> This confusion occurred about fifty times.
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> So, wait reads as wail, state as slate finger as
> linger to as lo. Those
> are the most common errors, but all of these errors
> resulted in
> recognizable words.
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> Thus a spellcheck of the book or its review by the
> Bookshare tools when
> ranking the validated copy at upload would not catch
> these errors. Thus,
> these misrecognitions fell between the cracks.
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> The only way that these errors would be caught would
> be if a validator read
> the book word for word.
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> I do not think the problem is so great that a
> resubmit is necessary. I am
> simply making an observation about a problem that
> would be difficult to
> solve and I am just puzzling over that dilemma.
>
> Cat Lover Lori
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