I'm not sure this will help, but I had a similar experience in that to improve the quality would have taken reading every word and even then to do a really good job, I would have needed the book which was not available from my library. I ended up rejecting the book; however, if someone else had been willing to read it word for word, a good scan could have been achieved. The submitter gave his name but it was no one on the list and there was no E-mail address. If there were some way that a validator could leave comments about a book like this for others to see and decide whether they want to tackle it, I would think that could be a big help. There were no completely garbled pages in this book; on the other hand, there seemed to be hardly any page without some sort of scanning error on it. I as a validator could have operated under the old rules and passed this book along with whatever rating the Bookshare equipment gave it, but since excellent scans can now be achieved, I'm simply no longer willing to do this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "GenePoole" <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
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Let somebody who has the book work on it. Easier on us that way.----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:56 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A Validation QuandryOk gang, I need some help. I'm stuck in a loop of not knowing what to do. I have a book submitted by Brian Miller called "Broken trust : greed, mismanagement & political manipulation at America's largest charitable trust." The main text of the book is pretty readable, but there are a lot of stray junk characters. Complicating this is the fact that the book contains hundreds of Hawaiian names, places, and words. Some of these have an apostrophe in the middle. I have no clue about whether these are supposed to be there. My spellchecker seems almost useless with this book. Should I release this and hope someone from Hawaii or who has a print copy of the book comes along and works on it? Or is this a candidate for a reject and rescan? I welcome any ideas you're able to share."Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!" Will Rogers Monica Willyard, rhyami@xxxxxxxxx Add rhyami to your Skype if you'd like to chat. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.1/805 - Release Date: 5/15/2007 10:47 AM
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