[bookshare-discuss] Re: book with too many (too few? ) pages
- From: "Paula Mack" <pmack1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:22:38 -0400
Hi, well, now I think maybe everything is going to be OK after all, because
when I opened it in Openbook just to see what happened, there were the right
amount of pages.
Thanks all for the help.
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 7:28 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] book with too many (too few? ) pages
> 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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