[bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:35:49 -0600
Marissa,
Since when is it necessary to have page breaks in a file as a qualification for
acceptance? I understand how this is more important for text books and certain
other nonfiction titles, and also that it is desirable for even a
novel. But bookshare already has a ton of txt file books that are not
accurately paginated. If the books that Louise has are of good or excellent
quality, why can't they be submitted as is? Readability, completeness
and, for legal reasons, presence of author title copyright info, would seem to
be the over-arching criteria, not whether or not the thing started life as a
text file. There are right now, on the step one page, a bunch of txt
files. Are we suppose to reject them because the probability is high that their
pagination is not the same as the original?
Put succinctly, why can't Louise just submit these books as is as has been done
by others in the past and never mind the page breaks? I'd sooner have a really
good quality text and no page breaks at all than a
lesser quality text whose page breaks are in tact. I'm not saying its the most
desired state. But what I'm hearing is that she should wait until you've solved
the page break problem before submitting these files.
mary
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