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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >>> of >>> available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >>> >>> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >> of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >> >> > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.