[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 03:26:34 -0500
Even though I know it is different because I have vision, I have to second what
Debby said. It drove me nuts at first visually, especially because I am
dyslexic, to have all of the invisible characters shown. I thought I would
never get used to how distracting it was, but I did adapt, and far more quickly
than I ever imagined. Now regular print looks odd to me.
Like Debby, at first I wondered how much difference it would make, but just as
in the example of punctuation, it really does make a huge difference. In terms
of mistaken punctuation, it is amazing to me how often an exclamation mark and
close quote is scanned as simply a question mark with no quote mark at all.
Another thing is a comma and a single apostrophe can often be misinterpreted as
a semicolon. There are so many variations that I think it is very helpful to
have everything available to you to make the best work of your proofreading or
scanning.
Proofreading is kind of like a puzzle or a challenge to me. I don't even know
if I could read for pleasure anymore because I would probably want to fix all
the mistakes. Grin. Proofreading is perfect because it's the one place that my
compulsion to have things right actually as productive and won't hurt anyone's
feelings. I guess that's the big reason why I don't read for pleasure,
proofreading is great pleasure for me. Y'all knew I was strange, you just
didn't know how strange I am. Wink.
I don't say it often enough, but I am so grateful for this volunteer community
and the opportunity to grow the digital library. Not only because all three in
my family benefit from it, but to know that we are saving so many books to be
preserved for posterity.
Thanks everyone for your contributions!
Valerie
On May 9, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Debby Franson wrote:
> I have textual and miscelaneous on for the Word set in Window-Eyes. I need
> to hear punctuation while proofing. Maybe I should turn the math one on too
> so I can hear asterisks.
>
> At first, it was a bit annoying to hear all of that verbage. Now, I wouldn't
> proofread without it. Sometimes punctuation is wrong, having a comma where
> there should be a period or vice versa and sometimes all of the double
> quotations are single or apostrophes, (whichever term you choose), or there
> are all closing quotes when there should be opening ones too, of course. You
> will get used to the verbage if you decide punctuation is important to know
> about.
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