[bksvol-discuss] Re: another newby questions please and thank you.
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:47:37 -0700 (PDT)
Willingness to try and to ask for help when needed are all that are necessary.
It may be a little slow learning process but there are plenty of people to
help, and you'll have fun while you're doing, as long as you don't get
discouraged. The reward is that nice note that your book has been accepted, and
the knowledge that you're helping so many people have a good reading
experience. smile
BTW, Her first name is Dale,spelled dale. (though if your book was accepted you
must have spelled it correctly.--although maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is a
different woman, not RoyRogers' wife. I'm not sure she's still alive.
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Wed, 8/5/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: another newby questions please and thank you.
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 6:27 AM
Thanks a million Cindy
yes I am totally blind so don't know really where
the scanner hits but thanks so much for the help and I'm trying and
learning,
gonna rest from scanning and just read for a few
days though
to see if I did well or not,
I just finished
scanning
Family ever After by Margaret Daley
it was really good,
but I have enough up there now
I need to be sure I am even doing it right
silly to put a bunch up there,
if I am messing up and things sense I am
brand new, and never done this before.
I am enjoying it and it is fun
but I don't want to do a lot and find out I messed
up.
I did my rejected book again, Barried sins by Marta
Perry,
hoping that turned out better this
time,
the others I have in waiting are,
Against All Odds by Chuck Norris,
Wanted
the author just flew out of my head,
seems like there was one more
but I did receive a most wonderful email
today,
trying and learning I hope,
Woman At the Well by Daile Evans Rogers was added
to the library,
the first one I got right,
so that encourages me to keep trying.
Thanks
for excepting my trials.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Cindy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:47
AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: another
newby questions please and thank you.
You do have to press down on the spine of the book fairly
firmly, so it's flat,but not so hard that you break the glass. smile. I
don't what scanner or program you're using. I set the bottom of the
book
at the bottom of my scanner and make sure that the the edges of the
pages are not way over at the edge of the scanner. That's where they
get
cut off.
When you think you have the book placed correctly, do a
Preview Then you adjust the surrounding lines do that the text is
within
the box. Then you can scanner--but be careful not to move the book. You
can just open it in the middle of the scanner, It's where the
bordering square is that determines what gets scan. If it cuts off any
of the text it won't scan.
Gwen, I'm sorry but I forgot
whether or not you're blind. If you are and can't see to set the frame
around the text that you want to scan Somebody else better tell you
what
to do. smile
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to
the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites
below
Wish List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books
Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
---
On Tue, 8/4/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
From:
gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
Subject:
[bksvol-discuss] another newby questions please and thank you.
To:
bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 11:57
AM
My name is Gwen wife of Bob who is
already a volunteer for a long time here on bookshare.
My questions are
these:
Is there a better place than another to
put a book on your scanner bed
The first mailing I got from volunteer
was a rejection of a book because words were cut off but what was odd
was when I read it or herard it on the scanner I heard all the
words so didn't know this so thought it was OK and put up a bad
book.
Now ordenarily,
a few years ago,
I would have just stopped, gave up and
chalked it up to I'll never learn or get it,
but for some reason I am glad I got and
that that first mailing was a rejection,
because it tells me, and taught me what
not to do.
And I am ready and willing to try
again,
I am determined, I am one that I have to
get it right or knock myself out trying *smile*
I try to never but seldom let any thing
beat me.
another question:
I know the book has to lie flat, but what
do you really push down to make that happen, because you have to be
careful if it is not your book and I feel like I'm putting a terrible
amount of pressure on hands and book just to get it to come out
right,
do you really have to press down
that hard?
Thanks for any help.
Sorry if these questions seem silly or
mundain.
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