Well, good, then. Thanks much. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jake Brownell To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:00 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What's the Deal with Text Files Hi Evan, TXT files can contain page breaks. However the difficulty with this format is that many popular editors do not handle page breaks in TXT files. Notepad for example and Microsoft Word for another. These editors simply won't include them. TXT files created by Kurzweil though, do retain proper page breaks. A TXT file with page breaks can be opened in Word and then immediately saved in RTF, and the page breaks will remain. The BookShare system will accept a txt validation back in RTF. Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: Evan Reese To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:25 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] What's the Deal with Text Files I noticed that there are a few .txt files on the Step One page. Also, a submitter who I am in communication with says he has some volumes in text format in a series which is incomplete on Bookshare. But if I am not mistaken, .txt files have no page breaks in them. I am unclear as to what I should tell this person, or what I should do if I should want to validate any .txt files in general. My own inclination is to just validate them, because - as I believe the Bookshare site says - if you can read it, then someone else can read it. But I also believe that there is now some kind of policy that books without page breaks should be rejected, instituted last year some time. Not everyone is aware of this, however, or is choosing to abide by it if they are aware of it, as the first book I submitted in January was just one long file without any page breaks - I had been removing them from books I had scanned for my own interest - and it was added to the collection quickly. I had just scanned the book and finished reading it literally the day I joined Bookshare, and wasn't aware that page breaks were a requirement. I have kept them in all my subsequent submissions and validations, though. Anyhow, I don't want to discourage this person from sending up these books, and I myself would like to see them added to the collection, and I am pretty sure their text quality would be good as I know this person does pretty good scans, but on the other hand, I want to make sure everything is cool with the rules and such. Thanks for any guidance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.0/342 - Release Date: 5/17/2006