[bookshare-discuss] book with too many (too few? ) pages
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:28:55 -0700 (PDT)
Paula,
What is the book? Maybe it woud be easier, if you want
and don't have the time to fix it, to release it. I
have the time, and if it's an interesting book, I
woldn't mind doing it -- though I have two from the
download list now -- but there's no hurry, and as long
as I can renew the books from the library, I can renew
them from the downloadlist. But I have learned my
lesson -- I'm not going to do any more Chinese
philosophy that I don't understand (and those names
really get you) or Chinese poetry or
overly-scholarly-written history. So much history is
well-written written in an interesting fashion,
though. I enjoyed the missing pages of Elizabeth the
Early Years (or whatever the title was) that I kept
and read the book, and I've just read another
wonderfully written book called The Speckled Monster,
about the very earliest, in the early 18th century,
vaccination (actually variolation) for smallpox. I
couldn't bring myself to scan it, though, even though
I'd like to see it on bookshare. Maybe someone
interested in medicine or early science and history
would like to.
Cindy
--- Paula Mack <pmack1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Kellie,
>
> Oh, so glad you understand. I was afraid I wasn't
> explaining it right. I did have Word show me all
> the markup, and although I didn't check every page,
> (was sort of hoping to avoid that), there was
> definitely some white space and a page break mark
> near the header or footer. What I'm thinking might
> have happened is that maybe on some pages but not
> most of them, maybe the header or footer didn't come
> out, so there went the page break too. or it could
> be as you said: whoever scanned this didn't use the
> two-page scanning option.
>
> I just can't think of a surefire way to fix this
> short of checking each page and that would take a
> lot of time. I just was hoping that there was a
> method I hadn't considered.
>
> Thanks for helping me with this. i want to learn as
> many tricks of the trade as possible.
>
> paula
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kellie Hartmann <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sep 8, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Questions from new
> volunteer
>
> Hi Paula,
> Sorry, I understood this backwards. What may have
> happened is that either
> you're right and because this file is txt Word isn't
> recognizing all it's
> page breaks and is substituting its own according to
> the paper length
> setting, or two pages sometimes scanned as one and
> that has thrown off the
> page count. You could check just to see if a few
> page breaks are located
> near a header or not--that would tell you what's
> happening. but either way,
> the process for fixing all that can be quite
> tedious. So you could just
> accept the book as is with the changes you've made
> to fix scanner errors and
> weird formatting. In txt files I've seen displaced
> paragraph marks where
> there actually should have been page breaks.
>
>
>
>
>
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