[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books rated Fair
- From: Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:41:27 -0500
Never experienced Easyscan, but even with the first Open Book, entire
portions of some pages would come out garbled. And yes, I totally
accepted that too, just happy to be able to read the book at all. It
never failed either; an exciting or informative part would be coming
up in the book, and the computer would start talking in Japanese. Sure
glad we don't have to put up with that now. Amazing how quickly we can
get spoiled by technology. Then again, I guess it's been a gradual
process.
Pam
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:23:01 -0400, you wrote:
>I find that the better I get at scanning, the less patience I have with poor
>quality scans. I can't believe how I use to slog through scans resulting
>from EasyScan, (that's the predecessor to OpenBook for those of you too
>young to remember), and I was happy to have it as a reading source. For the
>most part, I just won't download anything with a fair rating. If it's
>something I really, really want to read, then I might download to see if
>it's really bad, and if so, then I'll just wait till I can find it and
>rescan it. But this is a pretty new standard I've set for my own reading
>pleasure. I kind of equate reading a poorly scanned book with watching a
>movie that is not audio described. You just go into it knowing that you're
>going to miss stuff and hoping that you get enough of it to know what's
>happening. We've probably all developed some kind of awesome mental
>processing skills by filling in the gaps for scanning errors and other
>entertainment that is not described. <smile>
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