If I'm not planning to ead a book (if the text looks good thothrough spot
checks) I will do searches for some of the common Scanning errors, 1 for I,
'I'11 for the contraction 'll, rn instinstead of m (very easy to search
for, actually), etc. Much of what I search for depends on the ccontext of
the book. In a book In a novel about a family, for example, I will search
and replace for morn instead of Mom.
At 11:32 AM 30/03/2006, you wrote:
Cindy,
This is actually one of those occasions like the quotes where people using speech or Braille to read the book has an advantage over a sighted person. 1 and I sound differently and aren't similar in Braille. Of course volunteers have to actually read the book when validating for it to make a difference.
Gerald
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:27 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 1 for I
Yes, I've found it to be a common scanno--and one that can be missed even when one with sight reads the books. When I find it once, I do a find and replace, replacing, one at a time, space 1 space with space I space. I do it carefully, though, one replacement at a time rather than a global replace, in case the number is supposed to be there, which happens rarely, but still. And if, as in the book I'm doing now, the 1 is instead of the I in a set of capital letters (acronym for an organiztion) I find and replace that, too.
Cindy --- Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know whether this should be on Jake's tips > list but lately I have started searching for 1 > instead of I in the books I validate; this seems to > be a very common scanning error and, of course, it > isn't reporeted in rank spelling. It also often > occurs as one of those extraneous characters too. >
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