[bksvol-discuss] Re: Blank Pages was: RE: Re: Don't worry! and 2 questions
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:58:36 -0400
If I were a brand-new volunteer, I would find this whole discussion
thoroughly off-puting. Not because anyone here is not trying to do their
best, but because there should be clear input from the BookShare staff in
the manual about what need and need not be done. By now, we should only
need
to hear, "in the manual, page 30," or "in the manual, this section."
Just my $.02.
----- Original Message -----
From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 8:52 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Blank Pages was: RE: Re: Don't worry! and 2
questions
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.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 8:03 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Blank Pages was: RE: Re: Don't worry! and 2
questions
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
of
special 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
suddenly
seems entirely appropriate but no one does it anymore.
Murphy's Law I guess...
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