Except in preliminary material, blank pages usually occur between sections of a book. So if I, as a submitter or validator, am doing what I should and protecting headers, a reader would know that a new section is beginning, so if a page just before that doesn't have anything on it, except a page number, then it seems pretty obvious that it was blank. If a page has a picture or other material that doesn't scan, I don't leave it blank, but instead put some indication that the page wasn't blank, but that it had material that didn't scan. I just did this with one of the most recent books I scanned, where two facing pages had a map on it. I made a note on each page that they contained a map.
I'm not sure I understand what Monica is saying here about the stripper as her reason for indicating blank pages, since the stripper doesn't remove page breaks.
I'm not dogmatic about things. I'm always open to reconsidering how I do nearly anything, so I may change my mind and start indicating blank pages in the future. But at the moment, it still seems to me to be a bit condescending to put indications of blank pages in a book for Bookshare users when the publishers of the originals for sighted people don't seem to feel that it's necessary to have them.
The readers of RFB&D books usually indicate blank pages, but NLS braille books do not. So it may have something to do with whether someone is listening to a book or has a book with actual pages.
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Way back in the good old days when computers with power far less than any of us have on our personal units took up entire rooms and required all sorts ofspecial atmospheric controls, IBM published the most thorough manuals for their systems. These manuals were so thorough that the print versions (I don't think online documentation had even emerged as an alternate yet) would, on pages with no useful text, say, "This page intentionally left blank."This usually caused some laughs among we Paleolithic nerds but now, for the purposes of digitizing books for people with print disabilities it suddenlyseems entirely appropriate but no one does it anymore. Murphy's Law I guess... 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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