[bksvol-discuss] Re: Danielle Steel - "Second Chance"

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:07:21 -0400

I pay attention to one item when proofing a book with K1000 and that's the 
positioning of tabs.  Very often a tab indicates where a paragraph was 
separated into lines.  Determine this by searching for a tab and finding the 
ones not on line 1 or 2.  Check to see if the tab is followed by a newline and 
a non-capital letter.  After taking out the tab and following through the 
newline, and inserting a space, you can get the paragraphing pretty much 
correct.  Make Sure that you haven't come upon a table or something in collumns 
where tabs will also appear.  The other thing to search for is " " (quotemark 
followed by a space and another quotemark).
Sometimes short statements are strung together.  That's one way of telling some 
of them.  It's not perfect, but K1000's engines do a darn good job and these 
two checks will straighten much of the rest out.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Pietruk 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:06 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Danielle Steel - "Second Chance"


  Jenny

  Indenting and blank lines are a strange thing.  As you have K1000, try 
  this experiment:

  begin by making certain that you save the images of the pages you scan.  
  Now, scan 3 or 4 pages with whatever scan engine in K1000 you are 
  currently using.
  Save them to disk.
  Now, go into the settings menu, find the recognition setting and switch 
  you4r recognition engine to the other engine.
  Next, go into the Scan menu and ask to have those pages re-recognized.
  Save those and compare.

  You likely will see differences in spacing, blank lines or the absence 
  thereof, and other idiocyncracies.
  You may or may not find paragraphs depending upon settings, etc.

  The bottom line is that scanning is an art, not a science.

  The chances of a book you scan or validate exactly replicating the print 
  book in appearance is slim or none given the variables.
  And, unless you have the print book in hand, you will never be certain 
  which is correct.
  And, from a practical standpoint, much of this won't impact the value of 
  the book to the end reader especially, and keep this in mind, there 
  reading software may too make changes.

  So unless you wish to replicate the maticuousness of the medieval monks 
  who copied pages by hand and it might take months to copy a book, focus on 
  the big picture than the small stuff.
  And if you focus too much on the small stuff, soon validating will seem 
  like a chore than a pleasure.

  Have some respect for the submitter that they knew what they were doing.  
  In many instances, they have already edited and, in effect, prevalidated 
  the book.
  Too much tinkering on your end may counterbalance what they conceivably 
  spent hours fixing up.
  If a book looks good, it likely is already good.
  And with K1000, you have the distinct advantage of knowing this mighty 
  quickly.


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