[bookshare-discuss] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
- From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:24:53 -0500
When you get your copy back, and finish scanning it, you should
submit. Page breaks aren't required, they're just helpful for the
validater in checking for completeness in most cases. Maybe for this one
you will want to submit and validate yourself.
At 03:54 AM 12/14/2004, you wrote:
>Okay, this is getting ridiculous.
>You all may remember my difficulty with Wizard and Glass, wherein a page
>of text was completely illegible and the whole book was double-spaced. So
>I simply submitted my own scan of the book. But now, I've found an even
>greater travesty with Wolves of the Calla, the next book in the series.
>
>It isn't even halfway complete.
>
>I've been reading the book and realized I skipped a page from the book
>when I scanned it, and having lent the book to a friend, I thought "Well,
>that's okay, Bookshare will come to my rescue!" I downloaded the book,
>opened it, and tried to find my page--around page 504. Imagine my
>frustration to find that the book only went up to OpenBook page 218. I'm
>not sure what printed page that equals, because I didn't bother to look
>... but I did make sure it wasn't simply a case of a whoooole lot of
>material being on each page. It wasn't. I'd say there are no more than
>300 of the 700+-page book in the bookshare file. How in the name of all
>the gods who do and don't exist did this get past validation?
>
>I'm sure glad I went ahead and bought the book, because if I'd relied on
>Bookshare I would've been extremely ticked off. Imagine getting 300 pages
>into a story only to learn that there are 400 pages to go and you can't
>finish it! Sheesh! As it is, I'm simply going to have to stop reading
>for a few days till I get in touch with my friend and get the book back.
>
>I can resubmit my copy of the book, but I gotta tell ya, it isn't in
>Bookshare shape, because I knew the book was already on Bookshare so I
>didn't do what I normally do when I scan books for Bookshare--save the
>title page and page numbers and such. I can re-scan the title page, but I
>am *not* going page by page and re-inserting page numbers. <Grin>
>
>Well, thanks for listening to me vent. I guess if I hope to accomplish
>anything by this message besides venting, it's to ensure that people be
>careful when validating books. I read elsewhere on this list there's a
>back-log of books to be validated, and I just would caution people to not
>be so quick to validate that things get ... well ... sloppy. I appreciate
>the time and effort people take to volunteer chunks of their lives to
>validating books, so please don't take the caution as a blast of any kind
>... but you must admit, 400 missing pages is a bit ... peeving.
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