[bksvol-discuss] Re: The down side of this page break thing

It just seems so sad that a book should be rejected if it was a good scan.
I just released the one I was doing.  I wasn't going to be the one to reject
it.

Paula
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From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:37 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The down side of this page break thing


> Hi Paula,
>
> In the last week I've released 4 RTF books because page breaks weren't in
> the right spot, and I've been working on a fifth for a few weeks.  The one
> I am working on is already in the library, and this one is an improved
copy
> of that one, so I haven't felt pressed to get it back in quick.  I have to
> say though, that I won't put page breaks in manually again.  If I had the
> book it would have been quicker to scan it over, but I didn't come to that
> conclusion until after I put too much time into the book to want to give
up
> on it.
> I suspect what is happening with these RTF books is that page breaks are
> being inadvertently cleaned out with the headers, and then the Word
> Processing Software, or whatever is used to edit the book, is coming back
> and putting in page breaks when it reaches the end of its page
> setting.  With the books I released, the fact that someone took the time
to
> strip the headers, but left the page numbers makes it a more time
consuming
> task to find where the breaks should really go.
> It's a shame that someone put so much time into these books, and got quite
> good scans, but I don't think I'll ever touch another one for validation
as
> it even makes it extremely difficult to make sure all the pages are
present.
> I don't think there is an easy solution here, other than for submitters
> being careful when they are stripping headers.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> At 05:52 AM 11/12/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >I've kept quiet thus far regarding this page break thing because, hey,
I'm
> >fairly new around here.  I understand about high standards and all that.
> >However, I just downloaded a book to validate since I have today off and
> >figured I hadn't done one in a while.  In terms of scanning, the book was
> >beautiful; hardly any errors.  However, even though it was an RTF file, I
> >could not find page breaks, and when I opened it up in Word and then with
> >Open Book, the page count shown was only something like 80 something
pages.
> >That doesn't sound at all right for a book.
> >
> >Not wanting to sit there going line by line through the book in order to
> >insert manual page breaks, I had no choice but to release what probably
> >would have been a perfectly readable book.
> >
> >Possibly, there is some solution to this problem that I am not aware of.
> >Otherwise, I fear our overly high standards may rob us of much
pleasurable
> >reading matter.  People may become intimidated because of not knowing how
to
> >make their scans perfect, and validators may not wish to spend their
whole
> >life going through each submission line by line.
> >
> >Am I missing something here?  Are there things we can do to fix this
problem
> >in a global manner?
> >
> >Paula
>
>
>

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