This appears to be an entirely different book that just happens to have
the same title.
On 10/28/2017 1:44 PM, Chris Zeigler wrote:
*Danger Trail https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521281041/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_PSl9zbCBEYKE7*
On Oct 28, 2017 1:10 PM, "Chris Zeigler" <chrisallen032@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:chrisallen032@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello this is Chris Zeigler
I have found the book danger Trail.
I was wondering who the author was and the publisher?
I hope you have a wonderful day
On Oct 24, 2017 3:17 PM, "Roger Loran Bailey"
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
No one can do anything about this, but I feel like venting
anyway. Back on September 27 I started scanning a book Danger
Trail by Max Brand. It's a western and not the type of book I
would ordinarily read, but it was on hand and was not in the
Bookshare collection. So I decided to work on it anyway. I
wish I hadn't. It was a very difficult scan. Because it was so
difficult I have been scanning it one page at a time and
proofreading each page before I went on to the next page. It
is an old mass market paperback with very yellowed pages. So
there are a lot of scanning errors and a lot of corrections to
do. It also appears that when it was printed the printing
press was running low on ink. A lot of the words are very dim
and a lot of words are incomplete and I have had to figure out
what they are through context. Very often I have had to scan a
page over and over to figure it out. There are some pages that
I spent nearly two hours on. That is, I have spent whole
scanning sessions working on a single page. Today I was down
to less than forty pages to go. At the rate I have been making
my way through this I was not expecting to finish either today
or in the next several days, but I was close enough that I was
beginning to feel like the end was in sight and I was looking
forward to finishing it. Then without warning a thunder storm
was upon me. That is a bit unusual around here this far into
October and it was totally unexpected. I knew that it was
raining outside, but I knew nothing about any thunder storm
until a very loud clap of thunder erupted right over top of
me. I started scrambling to get my computer shut down. I had
to close my Open Book software and disconnect my modem. My
cable modem does not have a surge protector and my computer
got zapped through it once before. I am not sure what
happened. I am thinking that perhaps in my hurry I might have
cut the power before Open Book was quite shut down. But when
the storm had passed and I booted up everything to resume my
work there was absolutely no sign of Danger Trail. I lost
every bit of work I had done on that book over the last month.
That happened to me once before when I was scanning a 500 or
so page book and had four pages to go. In that case the scan
was relatively easy and so I started over on it and finally
completed it. This time, though, the book was a very difficult
scan and I just don't have the will to start all over. I won't
even find out how the book ends. It is a fairly predictable
western though. So that I can just about predict that there is
going to be a shoot out between the good guys and the bad guys
and the kidnapped fair damsel, Molly, will be rescued.
Nevertheless, an entire month of arduous work has just been
blown. This is the kind of thing that makes me feel like just
quitting as a Bookshare volunteer.
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