[bksvol-discuss] Re: relying in kes' ranked spelling
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:13:22 -0700 (PDT)
Barbara,
I have it, and I will save this post to remind me to
let you know off list how the scan is.
Cindy
--- Barbara <barbarab65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The last book that I submitted, BSO Beloved: A
> Novel. I didn't read the entire novel. Instead, I
> used the Spell Check on Kurzweil and read and
> rescanned a few pages, here and there. The Spell
> Checker, I think, is more accurate than the Ranked
> Spelling because I think that I picked up every
> error. Maybe, people who have Kurzweil should use
> the Spell Check feature rather than the Rank
> Spelling feature. This process would take people
> much longer but, in the end, I think that they would
> obtain better scans. Could the person who validates,
> Beloved, tell me how accurate the text is? I spent
> hours spell checking it.
>
> Barbara
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Cindy,
>
> Since you are very thooughtfully speaking in
> general, it does seem that
> submitters could take random samples of their
> scans--i.e., read a couple of
> pages here and there to see if this problem exists.
> After all, they make
> more than we do. And if submitters find that this
> problem exists
> with a lot of their scans, maybe they coould get the
> problem cleared up
> before submitting anything else. Just my thoughts.
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy"
>
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:19 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] relying in kes' ranked
> spelling
>
>
> I'm validating a book now that looks very clean. I
> suspect that if it was checked with kes ranked
> spelling it would have gotten a very high ranking.
> But
> reading it shows that there are many, many errors
> that
> wouldn't be identified by the kes ranked spelling or
> by Word's spell check--things like semicolons where
> there should be commas and words like lie for like,
> tune for time, polling for pulling, our for out, end
> for and, and many more--and I'm only on page 18.
>
> Just commenting. I know it's too much to expect
> everyone who scans to read their books before
> submission, and I suspect that validators who
> download
> a book marked excellent will assume that it is and
> possibly not read it, either--though I know many of
> you do. But I think that is why some books that
> appear
> excellent aren't really. Running kes ranked spelling
> or Word's spell-check certainly would get rid of a
> lot
> of junk and mis-spelled words, but it's not perfect.
>
> Cindy
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
>
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