[bksvol-discuss] Donald E. Westlake
- From: "CJ Vining" <Vining@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:21:20 -0700
There seem to be two copies of Thieves' Dozen, are they both the same? There
are two copies of The Road to Ruin as well.
I'll be scanning Dancing Aztecs soon, for any of you who enjoy Westlake's
books. It's not part of the Dortmunder series, just a stand-alone. NLS
doesn't have it, so that's all the more incentive to get it scanned and
added. I read it years ago by way of a badly-narrated audio version, and I
don't know where it came from or how to get it again, so I'm eager to reread
it. Even a bad reader couldn't ruin this story!
Joanie
From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 5:23 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Where are those contrarians?
> Well, the brf version did get rid of the page numbers. It also did the
> great service of making sure that most of the stories started in the
middle
> of a page, so even trying to skim through the book won't let you know when
> the stories begin. By the way, the stories in the book are great and the
> scanning excellent.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Pardees" <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 7:35 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Where are those contrarians?
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> > Hi Kellie,
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> > All I can comment on is my experience with my submissions that I have
> later
> > downloaded from Bookshare and read . Plus other submissions that I have
> > downloaded. Two examples of the first are Thieves Dozen and Cheapskate.
> I
> > downloaded them in Kurzweil, which chooses the Daisy format. Both
retained
> > the chapter headings and page numbering.
> > There were no headings, since I had removed them.
> > About other people's submissions I've downloaded, using Kurzweil and
more
> > recently, Bookport, the pages were numbered and there were no garbled
> > headers. Perhaps I have been lucky in choosing books that had all
headers
> > stripped by the valadater, but I doubt it.
> > Maybe the book is run through the stripper a number of times to catch
the
> > junk, I don't know. I do not doubt that others have problems with the
> > stripper, but so far I have not.
> > I will now return to scanning Motive For Murder, which I will submit in
> the
> > next several days.
> > I feel all of us on this list should be proud of what we have
contributed
> > to a extremely worthy project.
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> > Jim
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> > At 04:22 PM 7/23/05, you wrote:
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> > >Hi Jim,
> > >I think everyone agrees with you about nonsensical header gap. <grin>
> > >Unfortunately, it's those mangled headers that *don't* get stripped by
> the
> > >stripper. When the headers are nice and neat and uniform they, along
with
> > >page numbers and chapter headings, get munched without a second
thought.
> > >Which leaves all of us, lovers and haters of headers alike, stuck with
> this
> > >junk that isn't useful even to those of us who may actually need info
> from
> > >those headers.
> > >Kellie
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