[bksvol-discuss] Re: scanning

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:52:48 -0700 (PDT)

I'm willing to proof anything, no matter how bad the scan, and except for 
nonfiction religious books, matter the content
 It takes me a while because I'm very careful and sometimes I work on other 
books at the same time, but if you have something you want me to scan just tell 
me before you submit it.




--- On Thu, 7/26/12, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvarado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvarado@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanning
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, July 26, 2012, 10:37 AM
> Netta:
> I have not seen an answer to my question yet about scanning
> in Word, but I
> too would like to have a proofer to work with me if I
> scan.  I know most
> everyone works in Open Book and Kurzweil, and as I am going
> to the state of
> Florida for services, perhaps they could buy one of thes for
> me.  Don't know
> if I am confident enough in myself yet to scan as everything
> must be
> perfect, but I think I am going to try.  If I fail, at
> least I tried.  I can
> always go back to proofing.  Maybe that is how you need
> to approach it too.
> I don't know how sihted folks would have looked at the books
> I scanned a
> whole many, many years ago, but I read as I scanned and
> fixed as much as I
> could.  Beyond that I am not certain how to
> continue.  Guess we can try
> together! (smiley) Maybe I scan scan a book.  You can
> proof it and then you
> can scan and I can proof!
> Reggie
> 
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanning
> 
> Hey Reggie,
> I feel as you. I am considering scanning but am still
> somewhat leery. I 
> would want to get it right and the scans I do for myself are
> awful at best. 
> I already know that a lot of it has to do with my scan
> setting for Open Book
> 
> and although I am doing the "research" to get corrected
> there is still the 
> problem that exist.
> As far as Roger's comment about the "hold fors" on the list;
> as a first time
> 
> volunteer I felt like this community was cliquish  when
> I went on the list 
> to check out a book. There where so many "hold fors" and I
> didn't know what 
> it meant. I have since ditched that impression and decided
> to work on 
> whatever I can. I didn't find anything I was interested in
> proffing at first
> 
> and just checked out a book to get started with the proofing
> process-I have 
> since ditched that format as well. Now as a volunteer it
> takes me what I can
> 
> only explain as forever because I am always checking and
> re-reading my 
> proofs to the point that the times that I do not get on
> line, my book 
> expires and with the quickness it gets taken by another
> volunteer. I said 
> this to say that honestly the hold fors don't really bother
> that much since 
> the books that have hold fors on them are not in my interest
> anyway. Most of
> 
> the books that I am interested in does not seem to be books
> that someone on 
> this list will pick up and that is fine and the reason why I
> am considering 
> scanning. I only hope to develop a relationship with a
> proofer that would 
> like to proof the book for me.
> S/N: this stems from a conversation that we have in most of
> the book club I 
> am in. All but 2 of us are blind and the blind/v.i. people
> use book share to
> 
> get their reading material. There are not many books in one
> of the genres we
> 
> like to read.
> Netta
> "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack
> vision"-Stevie Wonder 
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