[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Breath of Cold and Ashes
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:30:18 -0800 (PST)
Good points. I may be wrong, but I don't think the
admdinistrators who approve books after they've been
validated do anything more than check for appropriate
copyright info or that the book isn't a duplicate. I
don't even think, based on some previous posts, that
they even check to see if all the pages are there.
They expect the validator to do that.
But if the validator doesn't read the file and only
does a spell-check and checks to see if hard page
breaks are there, then the end-of-line breaks that
create huge spaces in the middle of sentences and in
some cases create sentences with only one word or a
half a word, like the book I'm validating now,
wouldn't show up as errors. The book I'm doing now has
no scannos--everything is perfectly spelled--but
because of those arrows at the ends of lines sometimes
there are only three widely spaced words in a
sentence, sometimes only two, and sometimes only half
a word. The rest of the time the words in the sentence
are very widely spaced. It's annoying to me with
vision to read; I don't know what it would woulnd like
in Daisy or how it would be to read in Braille.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have no idea. How do so many books get rated as
> excellent and prove not
> to be. I do not excellent takes into account extra
> hard returns which do
> not appear at the ends of sentences but are put in
> at ends of lines. Makes
> stuff messy for folks who download but do not
> validate and makes bookshare
> come across as creating shoddy stuff.
>
> E.
> At 11:19 AM 3/28/2006, you wrote:
>
> >First of all, I want to thank everyone who uses
> their time and talent to
> >scan and prepare the books for us to read.
> >
> >My question is if there is such a problem with the
> book scan, then how
> >did it get to the actual reading list with such an
> excellent rating?
> >
> >
> >A Breath of Snow and Ashes
> >by
> >Diana Gabaldon
> >Quality:
> >Excellent, almost no errors.
> >Language:
> >English
> >Synopsis:
> >The sixth Outlander novel follows Jamie Fraser and
> his time-traveling wife
> >Claire in their heart-stopping adventures.
> >Copyright Date:
> >2005
> >Available Formats:
> >BRF DAISY
> >Membership required for download (Copyrighted)
> >
> >do people still go over the books that have been
> posted to the read-me
> >download site? I am confused. Please help.
> >
> >Nancy
> >
> >
> >
> >At 12:18 AM 3/28/2006, E. wrote:
> >
> >>Someone with the print copy may want to figure out
> how to fix up this
> >>book. What a shame it has so many linefeeds and
> errors and was scanned
> >>so recently too!!!
> >
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