[bksvol-discuss] Re: Automatic stripper
- From: Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:29:11 -0400
nOLAN,
aMEN! i'M DOING THE SAME PROCESS AS YOU ARE, AND i WILL BE TRULY ANNOYED
IF, WHEN MY BOOK GETS TO bOOKSHARE, THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS A GOOD-LOOKING
COPY OF IT IS ME!
tRACY
At 02:00 PM 8/27/04 -0700, you wrote:
>The other issue that arises here is a psychological one. I'm going to be
>way less inclined to submit a book if I know that all my pains-taking
>effort at stripping headers and leaving page numbers was treated with
>contempt by the software. There's nothing that would cause me to stop
>submitting books more decisively than seeing a book I've uploaded look much
>worse after posting to the public collection. That's especially true if
>I've invested serious amounts of my time and energy into creating a product
>whose page breaks appear exactly as they should and where page numbers are
>all there. I think I mentioned once before that I often use an Optacon to
>verify parts of my scans and to check the layout of the pages before I do
>the scans. Maybe that's way anal and rather over the top, but it's how
>I've chosen to do things, especially lately, with regard to my scans. It
>would be truly frustrating to see books with which I've worked so long and
>closely suddenly devoid of page numbers and chapter names. It's frankly
>not fair to those who care deeply--probably too deeply--about the quality
>of their submissions.
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>Nolan
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