[bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
- From: Linda Stover <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 00:00:08 -0600
Julie,
What is the title of the book you proofed? I'm a huge fan of fiction
dealing with the Civil War, and I want to make sure and watch for it.
Thanks, and I admire your dedication immensely,
Courtney
On 2/8/09, Julie & Miss Mercy <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I definitely sympathize. I just finished editing a 600-plus page book,
> no easy feat for me since I'm hearing impaired but have to use speech
> since I don't have a braille display, and I had to put in a few cut-off
> lines and missing words with the help of Katie Mihaly, another volunteer
> here. I couldn't have done it without her because I'd already taken the
> book back, and while the errors I had to deal with are nothing like what
> you're dealing with, I can sympathize with what a bear those books can
> be to scan then have to clean up. It's a comfort to me though to know
> that anyone interested in historical fiction from the Civil War era will
> get a lot of good reading out of it once it's in the collection though,
> at least for me, and I'm sure once yours is done, you can say the same
> too. i get a lot out of knowing that someone will have an easy read when
> I'm done with a book, especially when it's a long one.
>
> Julia wrote:
>> 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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