*Danger Trail
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On Oct 28, 2017 1:10 PM, "Chris Zeigler" <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>
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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