[bksvol-discuss] Re: A perhaps inappropriate request

  • From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:52:47 -0500

I scanned two 300 page paperbacks in two and a half hours yesterday.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Guido Corona 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:40 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A perhaps inappropriate request



  Cindy,  most of us volunteers use flatbed scanners of one form or another.  
This means that most of us need to turn pages manually,  then press the open 
book on the scanner platen and ensure that there is good contact towards the 
center spine.  Having said that,  a lot of us use software which recognizes two 
pages at a time,  and can even restart the scanning process automatically every 
few seconds,  so we do not have to press the 'scan' key each time we turn a 
page.  This means that we can scan a 300 page paperback book in less than 90 
minutes. 

  The lucky inhouse volunteers have instead access to a Canon monster scanner 
which can scarf down the same book   in about 2 minutes,  after removal of the 
binding.  Very nice,  but such a beauty can cost several thousand dollars. 

  Guido 


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        Cindy R <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> 
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        05/06/2004 08:02 PM Please respond to
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  It is perhaps inappropriate for me to request books
  since I am only a volunteer and not a member, but
  here's the situation (and my request).

  Recently, in response to a request, I scanned and, as
  I always do, validated the book before sumitting it.
  As a result, I have become a fan of Bertrice Small.
  Her historical romance novels are wonderfully textured
  -- full of details that not only make the historical
  personages, as well as the ficitonal characters in the
  books, wonderfully real but also have woven into them
  the social customs, clothing, food, politics, etc.,
  etc.that educates as well as entertains.

  My problem is that since volunteering for bookshare I
  don't feel that I should read and enjoy a book without
  making it also available to bookshare readers. Thus
  books I choose to read on my own time are books that
  are already on bookshare or older classics that I
  suspect members can get elsewhere.

  I know this is totally irrational, but it's the way I
  feel. When I read a book, as I am now, for my pleasure
  that isn't on bookshare I feel a bit guilty.

  Back to Bertrice Small's books. When I finished Love
  Slave for bookshare, I noticed that Rosamund was
  already in the collection, so I read that and
  thoroughly enjoyed it (set in  turn-of-16th century
  England). I just received from the library its sequel,
  Until You, which I shall scan and submit -- and, being
  unable to wait for it, I'm now reading Beloved, set in
  3d century Palmyra (a city-state in the Roman Empire
  in the 3d century). But I seem able only to obtain
  these books from the library in paperback editions
  with small print. It takes a long time and is somewhat
  difficult for me to scan them with the kind of
  unsopisticated scanner I have (page by page, pressing
  down so the pages near the binding will scan). I know
  there are quite a few of you who like to scan and who
  can do it very quickly. I'm hoping maybe some of you
  would be willing to scan some of her books -- there
  are many -- maybe starting with Skye O'Malley and the
  ones that follow in the Skye O'Malley Saga. It doesn't
  matter to me how bad the scan is -- I'll be happy to
  validate the book -- but if someone else wants to,
  that's o.k., too. Then I'll feel free to read it.

  I hope this request isn't out of line.

  Cindy


                  
                                   
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