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

  • From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:13:32 -0800 (PST)

Hi Katie,
   
  Yes, libraries do frown on chopping up their books.  We're all so engrained 
from childhood to not write in books or harm them in any way, that it took me 
months to feel comfortable with the idea that I was *killing* books.  I kept 
telling myself that I was making them available to a much larger audience, but 
still it was a bit rough at first. I felt like Lady MacBeth with the blood of 
books on her hands, saying "Out, out, damn spot."  :-)
   
  Carrie

Katie Hill <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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        HI Carrie, 
   
  It?s pretty amazing how quickly you can scan and recognize a book. I love to 
hear the sound of electronics and scanner gear humming away. I have both 
options here  now both an adf and flat bed. Both have their place in getting 
books done. The flat bed is letting me get a lot of books from the library now, 
they don?t really like you chopping up their books, LOLJ 
   
   
    Katie Hill
  You can learn a lot if you are humble enough to listen.
  Lynn Lewis Warren
  Email: Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  503-777-7155

      
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:48 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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