[bksvol-discuss] Re: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:37:47 -0800 (PST)
It sounds as if you're describing me (smile).
Anyway, I would be willing. Does the book have that
many problems? I could do it after I finish the book
I'm working on now -- unless your friend wants to.
Cindy
--- talmage@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Coincidentally, I know of someone who just received
> the book for a belated
> birthday present, who is sighted, and who seems to
> have infinite patience
> for editing. I wonder if she would be interested in
> cleaning and fixing
> the copy on Bookshare?
>
> Dave
>
> At 02:10 PM 2/4/2005, you wrote:
> >My daughter just gave me the book as a belated
> >birthday present (I once was a hgh school English
> >teacher), but I haven't read more than the cover
> flap
> >yet. Looking at your excerpt here, it sounds very
> >enjoyable.
> >
> >Dave, your example sentence about the hospital is
> >*really* confusing -- you used double quotes
> instead
> >of single (smile). I get the idea, though.
> >
> >I did do one book that reversed the use of single
> and
> >double quotes. Ever since books have been getting
> >lost, I've been keeping the files I worked on, so I
> >just checked, and the book was Johnny Tremain (and
> I
> >found that in one case I did what you did, Dave,
> and
> >automatically put a double quote at the beginning
> of
> >the sentence when it should have been, because of
> the
> >stle of the rest of the book, a single quote). I
> don't
> >understand why, though; I thought Esther Forbes was
> >American, but maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe in the
> early
> >days of our country books were written that way and
> >she wanted to use the old style.
> >
> >Cindy
>
>
>
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