[bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes

  • From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:12:46 -0800 (PST)

We do understand and sympathize. How awful!

Cindy

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--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] book scanning woes
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 9:06 PM
> Hi, just thought I'd share my frustration with people
> who understand. I'm almost done with a six hundred page
> tome by Barbara wood. I took this book out through
> interlibrary loan, and just found out that it was due back
> yesterday, and I don't see it anywhere in my loans list.
> Then, when I go to read it, I switched from grayscale to
> dynamic threshold halfway through in an attempt to preserve
> page numbers, there were letters missing from the beginning
> of lines. This means that I now have over three hundred
> pages to rescan! I guess I should've stuck to grayscale,
> arg!
> On top of that, the parts didn't scan at all, this
> means that there are two blank pages, and then the text just
> continues with no warning that you've now switched a
> good ten years forward!Just for the record, the book is
> Green City in the Sun.  Julia


      

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