[bksvol-discuss] Re: submit better copy
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:03:26 -0700
You're right; Kurzweil wouldn't correct the examples you gave; however, the
scanner may not be said to ignore hyphens because, for instance, daylight
shouldn't have shown up as divided. It's too bad the submitter obviously
didn't really read this book.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submit better copy
> Tracy,
>
> I definitely think it would be a good thing for you to
> submit your better copy. Be sure to put a note in the
> comments section that you've looked at both copies and
> yours corrects errors that are still in the other
> copy.
>
> I think sometimes scanners mark books as excellent
> when they're not, perhaps because whatever they're
> using misleads them--for example, if I understand
> correctly, K1000 won't catch errors that are correctly
> spelled but are the wrong word for the context, or the
> numeral one for a capital I. Will it catch words that
> are missing half if the first half is a word by
> itself? I'm finding a lot of those in the book I'm
> validating now, where words are hyphenated at the end
> of a line but only the first part of the hyphenated
> word is in the scan and it's a word, e.g., "day" but
> the second part, "light" is missing, I'm
> assuming,perhaps incorrectly, that K1000 won't count
> that as an error. And what about words that are
> missing altogether? Again, in the book I'm validating
> now, there are a lot of those. Presumably the scanner
> didn't hold down the book at the binding (it's over
> 900 pages and heavy and would ve difficult to do) so
> several words at the ends of sentences are missing.
> Would K1000 give such a book a lower rating, or does
> it just catch spelling errors?
>
> And please, no one suggest that I reject this book.
> It's an interesting and worthwhile book to have in the
> collection, and I'm enjoying reading it. Correcting as
> I go along is no problem. I can't imagine anyone
> rescanning it, but even if they did, it would have to
> be revalidated, and I'm sure the whole process would
> take longer thanit's going to take me to perfectit.
>
> Cindy
>
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