[bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
- From: Shane D <chatter8712@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:13:56 -0500
It came out great at the end, though. *smile*
On 2/9/09, Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you serious! I'd hate to have to scan that sucker! Can you imagine how
> long that would take on one page mode! You'd be working on the same book for
> months and months! And then if something went wrong with it... Makes my book
> look like a children's novel!
> Julia
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:09 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
>
>
>> Long book? Try Executive Orders by Tom Clancey. About 1,5000 pages, if
>> memory serves.
>>
>> On 2/9/09, Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Wow, that's a really long book! At least we are giving people a quality
>>> book
>>> to read when we're finally done, see, I've already adopted Julie's way of
>>> thinking.
>>> Julia
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Linda Stover" <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:33 AM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
>>>
>>>
>>>> Julia,
>>>>
>>>> It eventually ends, or so I'm telling myself. I'm currently scanning
>>>> a BSO of Trinity by Leon Uris, which is 897 pages long. I was over
>>>> half way through when I realized that I was scanning in the wrong mode
>>>> in Kurzweil, meaning that the page breaks wouldn't show up on
>>>> Bookshare, so over I've started. Here's to perseverance *grin*
>>>> Courtney
>>>>
>>>> On 2/8/09, Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, it gives me the courage to go on, smile.
>>>>> Julia
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Linda Stover" <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:21 AM
>>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Julia,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does it help in the slightest that from everything I've read on
>>>>>> Amazon, it looks like a brilliant book, and I will devour it as soon
>>>>>> as it is submitted?
>>>>>> Courtney
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/8/09, Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We do understand and sympathize. How awful!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cindy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS
>>>>>>> AVAILABLE AT
>>>>>>> http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm
>>>>>>> www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
>>>>>>> http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
>>>>>>> www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --- 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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