Something strange happened here. I had gotten pretty far in replying to this message when my reply just disappeared and I am not sure whether it sent before I was ready or not. Oh well, since I am not sure I will start over.
You've got it, that is, if I remember. This one is scanning pretty good. There are only a few fixable errors along the way and I am repairing them as I go. The most common one is that every time the word in appears it scans as Hi. I am just doing a find and replace every couple of pages. Interestingly enough, this one is a much older book than Mind Master which I gave up on because there was so much of a mess on every page. Also, a person with working eyes looked at it and said that the pages are considerably more yellowed than Mind Master. The Running Man was published in 1963 and Mind Master was published, if I am remembering correctly, in the late 1970s. Yet for whatever reason the older book is scanning much better.
_ _ _ "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the world" Virginia Woolf The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:41 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Add to books being scanned list.
When you finish it, I will be happy to proof it. I'll have to dig far into the back recesses of my bookcases, but I am pretty sure I still have a copy of the Running Man. When I went to Michigan State, Joan Hunter Holly lived nearby and I met her several times. Even back then when I had very little money, I liked to support writers that I knew and I still have copies of several of her books. Of course, it has been mumble-de-mumble years since then or even since I've read any of her booksFor old paperbacks I scan in greyscale then increase the contrast (not brightness). Actually, what works best unfortunately uses a visual interface and is only a special feature of the software that comes with many Canon scanners. It shows you a graph of the proportion of a page that is each shade of gray. Old paperbacks will have most of the page as light gray. Then you can slide a line over the graph to cut off (i.e. tell the program to ignore) anything lighter than what shows up as that background color of most of the page. Increasing the contrast sort of does that, but not exactly.Misha Roger Loran Bailey wrote:I am about to start scanning "The Running Man" by J. Hunter Holly. Hopefully I won't have to give it up like I did the last one I tried. It is another quite old mass market paperback and those often do not cooperate very well._ _ _ "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the world" Virginia Woolf The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html 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.
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