[bksvol-discuss] Re: reasons for rejecting a book?

  • From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:11:02 -0400

Title: Blank
Those broken sentences tell me something else. I said that if the title of the book and the author appear at the top of pages then the book may have been scanned two pages at a time in one page mode, but if the sentences are broken it sounds like it might have been scanned two pages at a time in one page mode with column recognition turned off. If that was done then the scanning software would assume that the first line of the facing page was a continuation of the first line of the first page and that the second line of the second page was a continuation of the second line of the first page and so forth. If that is the case then there is no doubt about it. It has to be rejected.

On 6/15/2012 2:33 PM, Cindy wrote:
 From your example,it seems to me that this is a reason for rejecting the book, i.e., that there are broken sentences that don't fit together and the story doesn't read smoothly. unless you have the print book and  book and want to fix it yourself, but that could be time-consuming, and if you're blind  and can't read the print book, it would be impossible, smile. 
Cindy
From: Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: reasons for rejecting a book?

Sounds like a header.
 
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From: Dornetta
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:51 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] reasons for rejecting a book?

Hey Guys,
Can someone tell me what are the legitimate reasons for rejecting a book? I have the book that  I have been proofreading for some time and I am starting to see that some of the sentences are not continuous. Here is an example:
"...
streamers through the low, heady atmosphere. These sounds, of life in
its infancy, were there as John Verlaine was woken by the incessant
shrilling of the phone; and such a call at that time in the morning
meant, more often than not, that someone somewhere was dead. [**here is where one of the sentences is not making sense]
New Orleans Police Department for eleven years, somewhere in
amongst that three and a half years in Vice, the last two years in Homicide;
 single, mentally sound but emotionally unstable; most often tired,
less often smiling."
***The book is not "flowing" so what should I do? This is early in the book and I am just starting to figure out why it has been taking me a while to finish. I just thought that this was just a book that didn't peek my interest but I see now that is not the case.
Please advise. Thanks
Netta
 
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