I think this issue of sidebars is very troubling. I recently scanned two books which I hoped to submit to Bookshare, but both of them had extensive sidebars which came out randomly on the pages. I even rescanned one of the books "The Bible as Literature", but the sidebars are still somewhat random and I am even less enthusiastic about reading the book for my own information. If anyone has the tips on scanning sidebars I would appreciate them.
It seems like some of these things that are visually useful still confuse scanners.
Cat Lover Lori----- Original Message ----- From: "Paula and James Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bkvol" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with Sidebars
Thanks, Mayrie. Based on my own failures at scanning books with sidebars, I wonder if the book would come out any better, even if thesubmitter rescans it. When I was on this list a couple of years ago, someone posted some tips for scanning books with sidebars, which I tried to follow.I still ended up with sidebars being split up and scattered on the page. I'm hoping that I can find a print copy of this book, and that the task of fixing the sidebars will turn out to be less overwhelming than I originally thought. I may as well get used to fixing them, since I mostly scan nonfiction, and am likely to keep running into them. G! Paula----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:38 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Dealing with SidebarsHi Paula, It has been my experience that all side bar stuff is not duplicated in the text. Either way, I think that deleting the mashed stuff is compromising the text. I'd say reject the book, and tell the submitter that a more careful scan needs to be done. Just my opinion. We can't mess with copyright laws by omitting text. So, I'd say, bite the bullet and reject the scan, asking for a rescan that is more careful to keep text that belongs together together. I've had to do a book with boxes and side bars, and it was definitely a bear to prepare for submission. Not a task for a half-hearted submitter. Peace, Mayrie At 06:43 PM 3/26/2008, you wrote: > I downloaded a book for validating, which was rated Excellent, butis a>bit of a mess in some places. It looks like there are sidebars, which >scanned as bits and pieces of sentences in various places. If I try to >figure out how to put each of the sentences back together, I could stillbe>working on the same book at this time next year. G! > > Since sidebars are generally drawn from the text, the informationwould>still be there if I delete all these random words. Is it permissible to >delete sidebars that don't scan properly, in order to clean up a book? > >Paula > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a >list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subjectline.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a listof available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.__________ NOD32 2977 (20080327) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.comTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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