These books are three volumes - not all of them contiguous, as Bookshare has
books three, four and six - in a fantasy series. I have already read them
on tape, and am also busy with classes now, so I don't know how much time I
will have to fix these up, and I'm not really inclined to read through them
to fix up the inevitable scannoes even with a good scan, as this person
generally tends to submit. And there is a genealogical chart at the
beginning of each book which generally needs work to get it into something a
Braille or voice reader can make sense of. I think you would need a print
copy to get it right. Also, there's the usual garbling of the chapter
titles and the first word or two of each chapter which generally happens
with even good scans. Still, if you want to take them, this person says
they'll be coming up in the next day or two. If I download them, I'm afraid
my perfectionistic streak won't let me send them back up until I have read
through them and done everything that can be done; but the time is just not
available right now, and won't be for some weeks yet. Besides, I had
already promised to validate the latest book - the final one - which he will
submit in .rtf format, so I will make time for that. But these others will
have to go to someone else.
Thanks so much.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:13 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What's the Deal with Text Files
I've been taking txt files from the download list to validate and putting in the page breaks. Depending on what the books are--if they're fiction or interestingly written history or biography-- I'd be happy to do that. It isn't always necessar to have the book; sometimes there are spaces between pages even if there aren't hard breaks, and anyone could put in hard breaks.
When books are submitted they go automatically to the download page, so until they're validated and uploaded, or a validator finds too many errors as well as page breaks, they won't be rejected.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
