Dear Kelby, Katie, and Tolkien Fans,
Kelby, several of us are Tolkien fans. We've been adding to Bookshare's
Tolkien collection and submitting BSOs of books were already in the
collection which needed to be improved.
My contribution has been validating and if there isn't a scanner's hall of
fame, we need one so the Volunteers who have been scanning Tolkien can be
charter inductees.
Whew, where to start.
Books we've completed and that you can count on for accuracy and
completeness include;
The Book of Lost Tales, Volume One rescanned by Evan Reese.
The Book of Lost Tales Volume Two, rescanned by Pratik Patel
The Tolkien Biography scanned by Carrie Carnos and validated by Evan Reese
The Children of Huron, the newest book prepared by Christopher Tolkien was
scanned in house and Carrie Carnos not only validated it, but undertook
the tedious task of inserting all of the accents which aren't recognized
by most scanning equipment.
The Silmarrilion, the latest edition, scanned by Katie Hill and scheduled
to be uploaded by next week when I unravel the 5 pages of genealogies.
The History of Middle-earth Volume three, all poetry, has been scanned by
Evan and is next in line for me to format and validate.
We have 2 other Tolkien biographies prepared by other volunteers.
I have validated several books of analysis,, criticism and discussion of
The Lord of the Rings which are in the collection.
While taking breaks from the concentration I need to validate the
Silmarillion, I'm Currently validating J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth
Understanding Middle-earth by Bradley J. Birzer scanned by Jim Baugh 202
pages with a 12 page index, and more notes than I've ever seen, over 200
in a single chapter.
I'm also validating Understanding Middle-earth Essays on Tolkien's
Middle-Earth by Michael Martinez, 512 pages scanned by Carrie.
Something I'd love to see, but haven't had time to do is set up a Tolkien
category on Jakes list because not all of the books about Tolkien's work
can be found by searching his name.
As I've progressed through validating these books, I've worked hard to
improve my technique for inserting accents. Tolkien uses the acute,
circumflex and umlaut most, but when the files are processed, all accents
in the braille files appear with a dot 4 in front of the accented letter
so you can't tell which accent is really there.
I've settled on a system where I list all accented words at the beginning
of the book with a key matching the accents to numbers. After each word,
the numbers appear in the order of the accents. For example
1 = acute
2 = umlaut
3 = circumflex
so the following Elvish word would be listed this way.
Aldudénië 1, 2
amrûn 3
Anadûnê 3, 3
Most of these words appear from 1 to over 100 times each in the text. To
find out exactly what the accents are, readers can look them up in the
list. This system isn't perfect, and I could use a proofreader, though I
try and triple check my entries. You can see an example of my attempt to
clarify the accents in The Book of Lost Tales volume Two. I'll be
interested in suggestions.
And, if you're interested, I'll e-mail you the list of over 200 accented
words for The Silmarillion. Thank you for your patience, Katie. I hope
you'll be proud of the finished product when I upload. You picked a
beautiful edition of the book to scan and your scan has been a joy to work
with.
Amy, I'll write you off list about your offer to help. I've got a pile of
book for your consideration.
Also, I've read the Hobbit and LOTR in braille from NLS so don't know what
shape they are in in Bookshare. Has anyone read our copies?
I'm out of time, now, but I hope you'll contact me off list with your
comments and suggestions at,
airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katie Hill" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:32 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: we Volunteer; Questions and Requests
HI Kelby,
I know the Silmarillion is in the validation queue because I rescanned
it.
The others may be there also. When Lissi sees this post she will let you
know what is going on. Lissi and a couple others are working on a longer
term project to get more of Tolkien's works in the collection.
The joy of life is living in the question
Katie Hill
Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kelby carlson
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:51 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] ew Volunteer; Questions and Requests
Dear Fellow Volunteers,
My name is Kelby, and I've recently becoce a Bookshare volunteer.
I don't know if this was necessary a wise decision on my part, as
I don't have a scanner and scanning software, and can't afford
them at this time. I can, however, attempt to proofread and
validate books if that is needed. In fact, I have just attempted
to do so, but ran into a problem when trying to upload the
approved book. It said that my RTF file was not a valid RTF
file, which I can assure you is not the case. What might I do
about this?
Secondly, I would like to request that a few books desperately
need to be re-scanned. The most important of these works are the
collected stories of JddRR. Tolkie. This includes the Lord of
the Rings, Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. Books I would
also love to see added to the collection are the rest of the
voluces in the History of Middle Earth series. I have other
ideas, but I believe Tolkien's work needs to be scanned again,
hopefully making far more readable copies. Hope to hear from you
all soon.
Kelby
Doomed Dragon
"It is not what we see that determines who we are. It is how we
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