Sometimes I feel your pain. The scan can be really good, but then you hit a snag like formatting. Or the submission wasn't even spellchecked, so simple textual errors are missed. It's not so bad for a sighted volunteer if they can get a hard copy, but for someone totally blind, they either have to rescan pages or guess at words. So yeah, numbers, foreign languages, and complex tables and graphs are all but impossible.
When I submit books to Bookshare, I try to ensure that there are no junk characters or incomplete words. I find it tough to find things I can do as well, because, like you, I'm either not interested or the submission is a raw scan with no guarantee that all the text will be there. So I've gotten to a point where I look through the book, and if I see that there are words cut off, I release if there aren't too many and reject if there are many errors.
Andromache On 5/7/2010 3:16 AM, gwen tweedy wrote:
I know it won't be me because it's tougher for totally blind people to
do things like this.
I'm finding it hard to find anything to proofread partly because I'm
so picky *smile*
that is why I did some children's books because I love them, but I
knew there would be no surprises such as strong language violence and
explicit discriptions a person like me may have to give it up because
I'll have nothing to do and just go back to reading.
yeah there are numbers of books up there but if you don't know what
doesn't have these things or ones that have quirks that sighted people
need to do nothing against that,
but for me being totally blind, I'm just finding it more frustrating
to even find a book and yes I know that is just me so disregard this
whiner you'd call it.
If I'm not going to be interested in a book or have the fear of what
I'll run into in the book, well it just seems more and more the
choices for me are gone I have nothing to choose from,
cause there is something I can't do in it, it needs to be worked on by
someone smarter better than me or it's old and you can't and the list
goes on
some days I just get hit with the give ups!
Gwen
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Hi, if the outsourcers are no longer going to do cookbooks, who
will? Regards, Kim Friedman.
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