[bksvol-discuss] Re: validating my first book
- From: "Jamie Prater" <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:56:54 -0500
Hey, it wasn't much for spelling except I think two r's in shoulders and maybe
one other thing. You're right, I took in the spellings of french words, the
fact that it was a kid's book, and all that. I think other than the fact that
it had a couple periods needing at the end of sentences, that was really it.
You did a great job. Keep up the fantastic work.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Yates, CPhT
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 3:56 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: validating my first book
Jamie, I scanned A Brother for the Orphelines, so if you corrected
spelling "errors" be sure they were in the book to begin with because it is an
old book with some unusual things in it.
Plus because it is a book with children's dialogue, words like
"stubbornest" appear in the book and that is correct as the author intended it.
Things like Mardi gras probably "should" have been capitalized but in the book,
gras was not capitalized, so it has to be left as it was in the book.
Jamie in Michigan
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--- On Sat, 8/16/08, Jamie Prater <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jamie Prater <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] validating my first book
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2008, 12:38 AM
Hi, all, I found an easy first book to validate, one I've read twice
in childhood. I've been through and cleaned up the elipses, fixed a few
spelling errors--the quality was excellent and there weren't many, and made
sure the file was saved once again as a .rtf file. It was originally an RTF
file before I made the changes and I made sure there was one again. There are
no unnecessary or garbage characters. A short and long synopsis was already
included by a previous editor and/or submitter. Categories have already been
filled in. Aside from copyright info and ISBN numbering, what else is left for
me to do before uploading in a nutshell? Have I left anything out? I've read
over the validation instructions, but they may have me down with a different
name as I'm not the only Jamie on bookshare. Is it okay that there seem to be
two sets of page numbers? There seem to be a few blank pages in the front
material but none in the core content in the book and no table of contents to
worry with. Let me know if anybody has anymore suggestions for this book,
please? It's a brother for the orphelines by Natalie Savage Carlson, and there
are several more by her I'd love to see available. She is a great children's
writer, and I hope and pray that many people will benefit from having access to
this book. It was a great pleasure to read it again. I know I can't read
straight through every validation, but this was quite fun. Have a blessed day.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions so far.
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