[bookshare-discuss] Just Downloaded My First Book for Validation

I just downloaded my first book for validation.  It's _In The Ruins_ by Kate 
Elliott, Crown of Stars Volume 6.  It was submitted on November 17, so it's 
been up there for a while.  The submitter put it in the Fair category, and by 
the looks of things, that's about right.  I've noticed quite a few errors just 
in the first few pages.  Also, the copyright information was not provided, so I 
put that in.

I'm picking up a paper copy this afternoon from a local bookstore.  If it had 
been categorized as excellent, I might not have bothered, but I might have 
gotten one anyway - preferably from my local library - but they didn't have 
one.  I would prefer to have a paper copy in case there's a scanning error that 
I can't figure out.  I have an Optacon, so I at least don't have to ask someone 
sighted what's on the page if I run into trouble.  I've been wanting to read 
this book since it came out last August, though, so I'm going to read right 
through it.

However, if the errors are too many and too egregious, I just may scan the 
whole thing in again.  It might come out better - my OpenBook does a pretty 
good job, especially with hardcovers and trade paperbacks.  It might be more 
effective timewise than trying to puzzle out garbled text.  Hopefully that 
won't be necessary.

I'm a little nervous, this being my first book and all.  I hope I do things 
correctly.

By the way, is there a keyboard shortcut for the Copyright symbol?  I just used 
alt-169 at the beginning of the book where it's supposed to be, but I was 
wondering if there is a keyboard combination for that?  Just curious.

I also subscribed to the volunteer discussion list.  I was a little intimidated 
at first by the 50 messages per day figure cited on the website, but I figure 
that it may not be as bad as all that; it isn't as though I have to read all of 
them.

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