[bksvol-discuss] Re: audio description, please? Bookshare on CBS news

  • From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:53:30 -0500

I can't wait to see you try to make it perfect, smile.

Seriously though this is truly wonderful and something that you all should 
definitely be proud of, smile.


Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
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 Puppies are the joy at one end.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carrie Karnos" <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: audio description, please? Bookshare on CBS 
news


Yes, you're right.  Despining a book takes a few minutes, scanning it takes 
a few minutes, running the OCR program takes a bit longer, maybe 15 minutes 
for a 500 page book (currently). That's how I did the last Harry Potter book 
so fast.  Gustavo handed me the book at 9am, and by 11, I had chopped, 
scanned and OCRed it (this was when the OCR program took much longer to 
finish).  At 11:30, when I was validating the Harry Potter book, he came in 
and said he was getting phone calls from people saying "Where's the book?". 
I said I wasn't done validating it, so he said "Upload it anyway.  You can 
make it perfect in a couple of days."  I uploaded it, he approved it, and 
within 2 minutes, the first person started downloading it.  In the next 36 
hours, 250 people downloaded it.  When the next (and final) Harry Potter 
book comes out on July 20th, I'm going to try to make it perfect (within a 
reasonable amount of time, of course) before uploading it.  We shall see if 
I succeed or
 not.

  Carrie

Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Oh my gosh 80 to 100 pages per minute. That is so
fast! No wonder you are able to submit so many books
Carrie. Is that how you will be able to have the new
Harry Potter in the collection the same day it is
released? It is too bad that publishers won't send you
the copies early like they do to people who review
their books.




Jamie in Michigan

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