Ann,Here is a post I made several months ago explaining how to use books.google.com to find the answeres to some of these questions. I hope this helps you with your garbled text. Please ask any questions you may have after reading this explanation.
Lori, I'm using a screen reader and am not signed in. This book is available in snippet view, which means you can't actually look at the whole page, but a snippet of it is shown in the search result. The snippet usually shows the text you type, along with some of the surrounding text. So, here's what I do. In the search box type the book title in quote followed by the plus sign, followed by the text right before or right after the word you are looking for. I do not include the word that is messed up, because that throws the search off. I try to use several words of the text, so it is more likely to find the exact spot I'm looking for. Then press enter to perform the search. When the search results come up, hopefully just one result, if I've done my search well, I read the snippet that is shown there in the search result. It shows the text you entered in the search, along with some of the surrounding text. Do not click on the search result, because that page will only have images. With books that are in snippet view, there are certain pages that are restricted. In this case, the search result will come up and in the place where the text would normally appear, there will be a notice saying that that page's content is restricted. If this is the case, you'll need to find another way to get the information, either through a rescan, or having someone look at the print copy, because it won't be viewable by anyone, sighted or not. I hope this made sense and you can find answers without any trouble. Let me know if it didn't, I'll try to explain more. Melissa Melissa Smith On 12/13/2010 9:17 AM, Ann Petrous wrote:
Here is the paragraph with the jarbled words: /"Serena," /she heard./"I am here," /she thought, innately understanding that she would not need to speak to make her thoughts known. Then her losses stabbed her heart again, hurting so badly that she could hardly bear it. /"My husband and child are dead," /she told them. /"We know," /the choir of voices answered. /"In his twisted eagerness to rule At craft, the Jin'Sai killed them both."/Serena took a quick breath. /"How?" /she asked./"He used the Orb of the Vigors to destroy Wulfgar," /they answered. /"The *wmxftcted *might of their had been underestimated/—/even by us. It had /*1 /aeons /*/since your world witnessed such a titanic struggle of the craft. But the /r /cannot commune with the /Jin'Sai /again, for the Forestallment required to /»*/a /*/lost to his blood." *fbat *of my child?" /Serena asked. /"I still do not understand."//the /Enseterat /died, your blood could withstand it; the vulnerable *(your *unborn child could not. But take heart. Wulfgar granted you many its before he died. You are a fully empowered sorceress, and your *ittrvng. *Any additional Forestallments required for your purposes can be the Vagaries scroll. If you act soon enough, victory can still be // / /I just need to know what is supposed to go there./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------*From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Ellen Bartlett*Sent:* Monday, December 13, 2010 7:47 AM *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: question Hi Ann,Was it, by any chance, at the beginning of a new section? I don’t know why, but the starts of new sections, usually a change in scene, had some spurious characters. I took them out, because with them gone, the text made much more sense. Like Mayrie said, copy the lines and I’ll try to help you out.Ellen
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