How long ago was that book scanned and/or proofed Judy? I can’t believe no one
caught that error? Wow!
Susan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] painful scanno of the week
Sometimes when I'm proofreading I run into a scanno that just makes me wince.
This is one that made it through into the collection. The scanner didn't catch
it, or the proofreader, in a book I'm reading that is in the Bookshare
collectionwith a big section in it about the presidency of William Howard Taft.
Throughout the entire section devoted to him, and throughout the entire book,
the name "Taft" translated as "Tail."
Seriously? Tail? Is it that unusual to know that the name of the president that
the book is partially about was Taft, not Tail?
Yeah, it'll get a quality report. It's an older scan, but not that old that it
shouldn't have been caught by the scanner, by the proofreader, or by whoever on
the staff looked at it back then to make sure it was OK before approving it for
the collection.
This type of scanno kind of hurts my soul because of the impression it must
make when a member reads it. I know it didn't make a good impression on me.
Most scanners and proofreaders put a whole lot of effort into making high
quality books for everyone to read, but this one--ouch. It's a pretty good
example, though, of what can happen when there's a scanno that a spellchecker
just isn't going to catch.
--
Judy s.
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