[bookport] New user question (was Re: Page Bug)
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:27:20 -0400
Well, that's a hard question to answer. First of all, do you mean the page
as the scanner saw it or the page as the BP sees it? They're not necessarily
the same thing at all.
If the person who scanned the book left the headers and footers in the text,
then the actual page number as it appears in the book will appear there and
you'll hear it as the material is read. Many people find these headers and
footers distracting, though, so you may never hear them. Some books from
Bookshare may also contain two sets of page numbers, the print page number
and the braille page number.
The Book Port seemingly considers a page to be a block of material that has
a hex 0C character at its beginning. These may or may not bear any
resemblance to the actual pages in the print book. You can check the page
that the Book Port thinks it's on in the settings and can navigate to any
other page in the book from there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Cook" <STCook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:56 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Page Bug
Hi all
My name is Steve and I am new to this list and the book port. I hope to
learn a lot from every one. How can you tell what page you are currently
on?
Thanks,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Wunder [mailto:gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:34 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Page Bug
I just resent the book and when I go to print page 290, which is some 50
percent through the book, in my newly transferred file it is reported as
page 4.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Page Bug
> I'm not at all sure that what the BP is calling a page really is, but I am
> sure that when it works correctly I can navigate by some modest amount of
> material and quickly find my place if I've fallen asleep or had to take a
> call and not been able to turn off the unit. In the file I mentioned, I
> verified it had 300 pages at one time, and now shows five.
>
> Gary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:18 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Page Bug
>
>
>> Are you sure that the number of pages that the BP recognizes really _are_
>> pages? That is, there's no relationship whatever between what you may
>> _hear_
>> announced as pages as a result of the scanning and what the BP actually
>> _sees_ as pages. I have a book with, supposedly, over a thousand "pages"
>> in
>> it, but the BP only sees slightly over 200 and I've verified that this is
>> the actual case. The BP determines what is a page based on the presence
>> or
>> absence of a hex 0C character in the file, not on print page numbers.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:09 PM
>> Subject: [bookport] Page Bug
>>
>>
>> I have noticed several times recently that I lose the ability to go from
>> page to page and that a 200 or 300 page book will suddenly be reduced to
>> a
>> book which shows only 4 or 5 pages. Book marks seem to be preserved, but
>> there is no jumping back or forward a page. Has anyone else seen this
>> behavior? Using most current Beta.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> Gary Wunder
>> gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
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