[bksvol-discuss] Re: re-scan or fix was Re: Re: how to fix a book already in the collection

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:35:41 -0400

How many mistakes per page would it take for you to know? What kinds would they have to be? I would think the most serious mistakes would be missing or unintelligible words. After that, I'd do ranks spelling and see what that looked like.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Concerning the great idea of fixing books already in the collection, how does a reader know whether a book needs re-scanning or fixed? 

Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dixie" <dixie.cobalt@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Excellent idea.  For those of us Proofreaders looking for work, there are
plenty of books presently in the collection that could be cleaned up and
resubmitted this way.

I am presently doing Rebecca by Daphney Du Moyier.  This book has most of
the capital letter I in as the number 1. The Chapter headings are missing and the stripper didn't do such a hot job on the headers. So, when finished this book which Carrie so kindly put up for me with a hold on in the manner you described, will be re-proofread and a cleaner copy will then be placed 
into the collection.


I am sure that there is plenty of work for those of us work starved
proofreaders . Maybe someone from Book Share can suggest books in need of work? I believe that they must have a list of books that have had comments, 
that would require re-proofreading?


 @->  ~Dixie~  <-@
----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] how to fix a book already in the collection


Let's suppose you start to read a book from the general collection
and discover errors, scanos, titles left at the tops of pages and so on.
Your volunteer's soul wishes to make a better copy for the collection.
What to do? Stop. Rather than correcting the copy you have, please do
this. It works beautifully.
You can write Carrie with the name of the book and ask her to put the
rtf copy on to the check in books page with your name on it as a hold for. 
Then you download it and correct it just as you would any other book
you proof read.

The book will appear on the check in books page way way down the list
on the last page since it has an old submit date.
Something for us proof readers to do while the check in books page grows.
E.



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