[bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
- From: "Merrill Louise" <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:00:29 -0400
I think your idea has potential--passing the buck when it comes to difficult
books for scanners, but what I am after is how to conceptualize the project.
If [continued on next page] will take care of the problem, if identifying a
symbol to use for bullets in a braille document will work, I can deal with
that. It's the visual complexity of a page that is defeating me. Someone
would have to decide, if the book was recorded linearly, what to do, too --
journal entries are at the end of each chapter -- journal entries are on a
separate tape -- or I guess links to the person's name so you can decide
when to read their entries, but we are dealing with a linear presentation
at this point and a limited spoken or braille "view" of the material.
And, as you say, I don't have unlimited time, but I think sharing good
material is worthwhile.
Merrill Louise, Pastor
The Judson Fellowship
Jamestown, New York
cell/office 716.969.2840
"With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am glad because of God my
Savior. (Luke 1:46-47)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:16 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
> How about passing the buck? (grin). Both books sound
> as if they have a lot of problems. If I were you
> (which I'm not, nor am I in your line of work, so I
> don't have any ethical problems with what I'm about to
> suggest), I'd use the books for my purposes and when I
> was finished with them, if I thought they'd be useful
> to the bookshare members, I'd mail the books to the
> folks at Benetech and let them deal with them. Or, if
> I wanted to keep copies for the future and felt that
> it wouldn't be right to make copies for myself, I'd
> write to the publishers and ask them to donate copies
> to Benetech. If the clever Benetech folks can't figure
> out the best way to do it, probably they can contact
> the publishers and ask for permission to re-organize
> the books.
>
> O.K., so I'm copping out. But your time and effort is
> valuable, and between your work for bookshare and your
> pastoral duties, and, if you have one, your family,
> there may be better uses for said time and effort that
> trying to make those two books readable for bookshare
> at the moment.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- Merrill Louise <STARBASEWILDGOOSE@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > If I moved the text to keep it together, page breaks
> > would become irrelevant. Text from pages 1 and 2
> > would appear on page 1 and text on page 1 would be
> > moved to page 2.
> >
> > In another book I am scanning slowly, I have the
> > same problem. There's the text and in side bars and
> > in the body, there are journal entries from five or
> > six different people. You'll be reading the body
> > text, come across a partial journal entry, go back
> > to the text, come upon another partial journal
> > entry, maybe go back to the text, maybe go back to
> > the previous journal entry or go onto a third
> > journal entry. I tried just moving the journal
> > entries to the end of the chapter. I can kind of
> > match up the pieces, but in the first chapter, I
> > ended up with a paragraph that I don't know to whom
> > it belongs! It's an oversized book, too and I really
> > wish it wasn't laid out this way because it is
> > interesting, both the text and the journal entries.
> > They don't, by the way, closely correlate with one
> > another. The preface says you can read the text,
> > read the journals, read them together, read one
> > first and then the other or the other way round so
> > which page they appear on is not important. If I
> > were to finish this book, put it into decent shape
> > and upload it, you would end up with journal entries
> > on unnumbered pages at the end of each chapter and
> > some of the chapter pages would be blank because no
> > body text appears on them.
> >
> > Merrill Louise, Pastor
> > The Judson Fellowship
> > Jamestown, New York
> > cell/office 716.969.2840
> > "With all my heart I praise the Lord, and I am
> > glad because of God my Savior. (Luke 1:46-47)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jana Jackson
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:35 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
> >
> >
> > Hi, Merrill! Sharon's suggestion is probably the
> > best one, and I don't believe it's considered to be
> > a violation to handle textbooks in this way. But
> > were you saying that when you do this, it causes the
> > page breaks to be in the wrong place?
> >
> > Jana
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Sharon
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 4:25 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Conventions
> >
> >
> > I'd probably place the material together so that
> > it flows more naturally. It drives me crazy when
> > stuff is picked up several pages later. But then
> > again, maybe we are not supposed to do so. Sharon
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now.
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush
>
Other related posts:
