[bksvol-discuss] Re: question

  • From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 13:53:44 -0500

Hi Melissa and everyone!

I want to thank you and everyone who reads there scans to clean up what needs it. I do the same thing for the same reason--I have the hard copy in hand, though I have worked on some nice raw scans too. Many of my scans are pretty good as is, but all need some cleaning up. Others are not so good due to a tight margin, missing page numbers or chapter headings. And I like to put in the asterisks to preserve white space where there is a scene change in a chapter. The hollow numbers for chapters are the worst. They seem to be alwys ignored by OCR, so they have to be typed in.

Debby

At 02:15 PM 5/7/2010, Melissa Smith wrote
Thanks, Lori. I'm glad it was an easy proof. I figure, since I have the book in-hand, I should make as many corrections as I can. If it is something I'm unable to handle, I try to find a volunteer who can manage it.


Melissa Smith
On 5/7/2010 1:45 PM, Lori Castner wrote:
Hi, Melissa,

I recently proofread your submission "Long Summer Nights." It was nearly a perfect scan! Proofreading was extremely easy; you did all the hard work!

Lori C.

----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>Melissa Smith
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Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 7:57 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question

Gwen,
When I submit a book, I always put in my comments whether this will be an easy proof or complicated one. I also try to include information in the description as to whether it has strong language, descriptions of sex, or violence. I think more submitters should do this, so proofers know what they are in for. I always put my email in the comments, so the proofer can contact with me with any problems.


Melissa Smith
On 5/7/2010 8:16 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

----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>Kim Friedman
To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:39 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question

Hi, if the outsourcers are no longer going to do cookbooks, who will? Regards, Kim Friedman.


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