[bksvol-discuss] Re: some questions

  • From: "gwen tweedy" <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:25:07 -0500

OK thanks.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:21 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: some questions


Gwen, nobody expects scans to be perfect. That's why we have proofreaders and why scanners don't proofread their own scans. Don't give up until your books get rejected two or three times. It may be that your books can easily be fixed by proofreaders who know what they're doing. submit a couple of them with holds for grandma Cindy.
Cindy

Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below



Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List

Books Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List


--- On Wed, 10/28/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: some questions
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 3:23 AM
Oh bless your heart (((Cindy))) I'm
probably gonna stop volunteering.
Not because of anyone or anything here, but I'm just not
succeeding.
I'm just not getting it. I've set everything I
can tried to follow instructions for fixing things just
right.
I've even left things alone for fear of messing up a good
scan even more.
I'm just not making it with a wonderful scan that y'all
enjoy proofing.
There is always something wrong and I feel that is not fair
to y'all who work so hard to make good books.
It would be  less stress on y'all and certainly on me
so it's best that I just go back to reading what y'all put
up. I gave it my best  shot, I tried to enjoy it and I
truly tried to add books to the library that y'all would
enjoy.
But it really didn't happen as it should have, because I
never got to y'all a wonderful scan that somebody wrote back
to me a and said yea Gwen this required very little work and
was an easy proof.
I've never had an easy proof for y'all yet and I am sorely
disappointed within myself, I'm sorry I wish I could have
done better wish I could have done better but it ain't
happenin as they say.
So it's  truly time for Gwen to hang it up and let
y'all get to some good books and good books to proof for a
change.
Thanks for putting up with me for as long as you did, I'm
not sure I would have been so patient. Y'all rock!

Bless your hearts tight hugs to all and thanks for a job
well done!
Happy scanning, and happy  proofing. I'll look forward
to what y'all send up.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: some questions


> Gwen submit them with a hold for Cindy--maybe you'd
better make that grandma Cindy since I think there is
another Cindy. I won't get to them for a while, because I
have at least 2 to finish first, and a third I should do,
and a fourth I said I'd do, but it is nice to vary what one
is reading. Assuming I can get the print books, I'll proof
them for you.
> Cindy
>
> Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection)
and books-being-scanned list available at sites below
>
>
>
> Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
>
> Books Being Scanned List: > https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
>
>
> --- On Tue, 10/27/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>> From: gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] some questions
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4:22 PM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Is  there a place on
>> line, where you can find
>> out things for a book like the contents of books
that kind
>> of thing
>> I  know you can wait
>> until you see a sighted
>> person and that is cool but wondered if there is
such
>> a  place where you
>> can find out things the little things without
sighted
>> help.
>> Also Bob thought he heard
>> once, like if it is a
>> text book or an important book where things have
to be
>> precise but on fiction
>> books if it didn't mess up the book some things
>> didn't matter like we've had
>> books before where headings weren't there and lots
of
>> times the page numbers you
>> don't hear them in a book they don't show up when
>> the book comes up and is
>> excepted anyhow because of like software or any
number of
>> things.
>> Because he says he has put
>> up books that he was
>> sure he had the page numbers in and stuff and when
he has
>> looked at them or
>> brought them down none of those things are in
>> there.
>> I know you  have to
>> do a good job that kind of
>> thing
>> I have even had a person
>> who does not volunteer for
>> bookshare who just reads tell me that all that
stuff
>> distracts from the book and
>> breaks up the text and it bothers him.
>> Just thought I'd
>> ask.
>> Cause some books no matter
>> what a blind person does
>> some books are grand but some books
especially these
>> tiny ones stuff just
>> doesn't come out and this is about the 4th time
>> I've gone through this book in
>> fact got so dilligent on it that ended up putting
up a
>> partial book not sure how
>> that happened but it did.
>> I'm ready for some new
>> books LOL these same 9 books
>> LOL have been sitting on my table for months and
I've
>> redone them so many times
>> that wow they are broke *smile*
>>
>>
>
>
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