Hi Kelly: Much of what you describe I didn't mark down for. It was mostly pages that were so garbled I couldn't read it. I even fixed words, making assumptions by the text. I'm going to check it out again. I don't know if I'm allowed to rerate it or not, but if I am, I'm willing to change it. Thanks for your post. I love doing this. Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: Kellie Hartmann To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:34 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a question on the last days of dogtown Hi Patty, What you are describing are page headers. They are usually preceded on the BN by dots 1-2-4-6 followed by the letter f. This stands for form feed, and is the BN way of representing page breaks. Page breaks sometimes separate a word, which will be hyphenated. You can actually put the word together either before or after the page break. You can remove the page header, but leave the page number if it is there. The placement of page numbers or headers isn't a reason to mark down the quality of a book because it's something that's present in the original print copy. Can you remember what other types of errors you were seeing in this file? Anything that was in the original book, such as foreign words, dialect etc, will not lower the quality rating of the book. There are some things that the BN doesn't necessarily translate in the nicest way. For example, if there are three periods--an ellipsis--but there are spaces between them in the print copy, the BN will show them as three periods with spaces between them, instead of three dot-3s in a row. The kinds of errors that are caused by scanners are things like the number 1 or a slash for the letter I, or the number 1 for apostrophe. After validating for a while, you'll get a feel for what kinds of errors are braille-related, and which are caused by OCR software. If Amber's book somehow did have a couple of pages that had a lot of junk characters or mixed up sentences, maybe she would be able to rescan those pages. That's one thing you can do when you're validating a book and have some issues with it--ask here on the list. Sometimes a page or two can end up very messy, even though the rest of the book is fine. When that happens, the scanner or another volunteer may be able to redo the scrambled pages. At any rate, don't worry two much about this--it will get sorted out. It sounds like you're doing a great job volunteering. Kellie