[bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted scanners
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:48:10 -0800
Carrie, Thank you so much for taking the time to give that explanation. I felt
sure there must be some built-in safeguards to help.
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From: Carrie Karnos
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Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 3:00 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted scanners
I didn't think it was a criticism, but occasionally a book of mine will slip
through without my usual careful editing, so I assumed that it was one of
those. If there are only a few errors in a bestseller, that's fine, but if it
gets to be more than a handful, please let me know and I'll fix the book. I
REALLY want bestsellers to be as close to perfect as one could reasonably
expect (the key word here being 'reasonably').
About checking for errors, I look for a red wavy line underneath words that
MS Word thinks are errors. If the word is a last name, I click on 'Ignore all'
so that MS Word ignores all instances of the word. The downfall with this
system is when a word is okay with either a t or an r, like cat and car. If MS
Word thinks that the grammar is bad, it'll use a green way line underneath the
offending words, like a sentence fragment. Sometimes I'll catch the t-r
instances by checking grammar problems. I usually skim through every page of
the book, looking for errors. I catch most, but probably not all, of them.
Carrie
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From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2008 2:45:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted scanners
My question was in no way a criticism, Carrie. As a matter of fact I am
writing where the errors occur which are really not many, but I simply got to
wondering about this and decided to ask.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 2:27 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question for sighted scanners
Which book is it? I'll fix it. Carrie
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From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2008 11:47:59 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question for sighted scanners
I am reading a New York Times scanned book and the most common scanning
errors are the scanner mistaking a T for an R. How would a sighted scanner even
be able to identify this problem since they are not listening to the book or
reading it on a braille display? There must be a simple answer to this that
just hasn't occurred to me. Jill
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