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

Hi Evan,
    Don't forget that our job is to reproduce the books in a manner as they 
were intended in print. So you shouldn't be moving the copyright information 
because that would be changing the format. Generally copyright information is 
on the page following the main title page, but it has been known to be located 
in different places.

HTH,
Jake
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Evan Reese 
  To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:15 PM
  Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Downloaded My First Book for Validation


  Actually, it may not be as bad as I had at first thought.  There are quite a 
lot of errors in the preliminaries, but after the book actually starts, things 
seem to improve.

  Also, I was wrong about the copyright information not being present.  He put 
it after the dust jacket material and I skipped past it on my first lookover.  
I expected it to be right after the title and author - where NLS puts it and 
where I put it when I scan stuff.  It just seems more logical to put it there, 
so I have moved the copyright notice up to the top just after the title and 
author.  I think this is a good practice for people in general so the validator 
doesn't have to go looking for it.

  I also should have cut him a little more slack, as there is a geneological 
chart at the beginning of the book with lines going hither and yon from 
ancestors to descendants.  No scanner could be expected to get that straight, 
and some of the print is also quite small.  My perfectionism may have to just 
take a vacation because I don't think I can sort this out either.  I may have 
to just leave it as it is, regretably.

  I do have a couple of questions, but I'm going to submit them over at the 
other list.  Still, I don't think a rescan will be needed after all.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jill O'Connell 
    To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:02 PM
    Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Downloaded My First Book for 
Validation


    Don't be intimidated; we all had to start somewhere and you can always ask 
questions. If you agree early on that the quality is only fair, you will 
probably be better off rescanning; that has usually been my experience. If this 
is the case, you might consider rejecting the book and letting Bookshare know 
that you are rescanning; that way you will get the extra submission credit that 
you deserve. Jill
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Evan Reese 
      To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 11:04 AM
      Subject: [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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