[bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers etc.
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:51:53 -0600
Well, as to BRF and page numbers, NLS puts the print page numbers in its
books. They will put, for example, 2, 2B, 2C, etc., to indicate what you
described, Bob, and at the bottom of the page you will find the Braille page
number. This is in embossed books, but you get the same thing on Web
Braille. It seems that Daisy and the bookshare software do not do this.
Sue S.
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From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers etc.
I totally agree Elizabeth.
But, it might be the fault of whatever software is being used. From a
logical viewpoint you wouldn't expect a Braille page to contain the same
amount of material that a print page does. I think I've heard the figure
that a page from a braille book contains about one third the material a
print page does. So, if the book does contain page numbers from the print
book, they would be meaningless to a Braille reader, because print page
numbers would occur one third of the time.
Bob
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From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: page numbers etc.
>I remember going through this same discussion about Kurzweil and Daisy
>before with somebody with textbooks (was it you Dr. Cross?) voicing the
>same concern. The concern is that .brf files also seem to have some kind of
>paging issue.
>
> Both these concerns seem critical to me. Kurzweil is meant for use by a
> population which includes many students. Brf files which bookshare
> processes certainly need to retain print pages.
>
> E.
> At 12:22 PM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
>>Hi Kenneth,
>>
>> If you are downloading books from Bookshare and reading the daisy
>> files with Kurzweil 1000, you won't see page numbers. I had the same
>> complaint that you are making, and had to be told that K1000 doesn't, for
>> some reason that no one has managed to explain to me, retain the page
>> numbers in Bookshare's daisy files. So, your books may after all, still
>> retain their proper page numbering. You may just not be able to see
>> them. No guarantees that your page numbers are still there, just an
>> explanation of why you might not see them in the Bookshare book.
>>
>>Peace,
>>Mayrie
>>
>> At 07:25 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
>>>For all this talk, can someone give the name of one book in the current
>>>collection of over five hundred pages which has all of the page numbers,
>>>in the right places, so that one can use that page number to footnote
>>>scholarly research. I would like to see at least one, because almost all
>>>of the books I put on the system are mangled so that I can't later use
>>>them for my work or research.
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