[bksvol-discuss] Re: Attn. Brianl Miller RE: Re: text format submissions
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:41:14 -0800
I *am* speaking of those CDs.
Thanks Marissa, for the update.
You must have found a true saint.
And if that saint is looking for another halo, I have hundreds more books
where those came from.
Brian Miller
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From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Attn. Brianl Miller RE: Re: text format
submissions
Brian,
If the books you're speaking of are the ones you sent to Bookshare on CD oh
so many moons ago, they're beginning to trickle up! I finally found a
volunteer who had the time, energy and willpower to deal with your amazing
collection.
Best,
Marissa
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Paula and James
Muysenberg
Sent: Tue 1/25/2005 11:33 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: text format submissions
Brian,
You may want to consider resaving your books as RTF files before
submitting, just to make sure page breaks aren't lost. If you don't want to
mess with that, please still submit the books.
When I validate books, I sometimes specifically look for text files, so
I can download them onto my Braille Lite. I much prefer to edit in braille,
rather than speech, and the Braille Lite doesn't read RTF files.
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Miller
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: text format submissions
I have several hundred books that are in text form. They are in TXT
format because I scanned them and then converted them in order to download
them to my Road Runner device more easily, which only accepted text files.
Then my computer crashed, so I lost the original scans, but I had the text
files on zip disks.
This collection of mine is rather unique, containing hundreds of history
monographys, novels, travel books, and a variety of titles that are not on
bookshare.
As a Ph.D history student I read constantly, and have a pretty massive
collection.
So, do we want to toss out this resource because they are in text files?
I have the books, so it is no skin off my nose, but what about everyone
else?
Brian Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Leonardi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] text format submissions
Hi, all.
Let me start by saying that I need to say something but I'm a bit
frustrated so please don't think me rude. The fact of the matter is that
bookshare does indeed allow text format submissions. Not all txt formatted
files have the page breaks missing... I have validated a few that did have
page breaks. If you have a problem validating txt files, don't do it. It's
very simple. Until bookshare states that txt files will no longer be
accepted, we as validators need to deal with it. I don't think it's right
to come down on submitters for using the txt format. I'm not a submitter so
I don't know why people use this format, but they must have a reason. We
should be grateful that these submitters are taking the time to bother
scanning books for us to read. Personally, I appreciate the time they take
to submit... even if some of them are using txt format.
Lisa
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