Dear Booksharian Friends,When Windows XP shuts down and the screen says, "Windows is shutting down..." the dots in the ellipsis don't have spaces between them. The spaces are a matter of font and visual style. Unless the Bookshare braille translator is updated, it won't create a braille ellipsis, a series of three dot threes unless the ellipsis is created in Bookshare files without spaces. If we're going to put in two dashes to create an m dash for the braille translator then for braille readers to see an ellipsis, we should put three periods minus spaces so readers will see the actual ellipsis. The book I'm reading now, from a Bookshare file is called something like, Christmas Cookie Murder, has flawless text, but the ellipses are groups of randomly spaced braille period signs. None of them appear in the correct braille code.
It goes without saying that I make sure the ellipses in the books I validate are made with three periods and no spaces.
Always with love,----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:57 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Identical has been uploaded
I just meant that I didn't like the book either. I haven't finished it but doubt I will. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:40 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Identical has been uploadedI'm not sure what you mean by "bad job for the author" but I found no redeeming quality in this book. If Cindy hadn't wanted to validate, I never would have continued scanning. I must be out of touch with young adults' lives if this is typical. Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:06 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Identical has been uploadedHi Cindy.I checked out identical, though it's not my usual cup of tea the synopsissounded interesting) and, as far as I can tell, the formatting stayed.That's rather unfortunate because I found it very confusing. But, it follows bookshare policy of staying as close as is possible to the original text.Good job, bad job for the author. Bob----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy Rosenthal" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:32 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Identical has been uploadedI uploaded Identical, by Ellen Hopkins, this evening (i.e., Wed.). I have in my notes that Shannon requested it, but I'm not sure which Shannon, though if it's solsticesinger then she's on this list, I think. Besides, I think a few other people wanted to read it, too. Jill scanned it and did an excellent job. A lot of the formatting of the book was retained in the scan. For most of the pages I tried to keep the formatting of the book, too. A couple of pages I didn't bother, except for the separations between stanzas or lines, where I did put asterisks. I'm curious to know how much of the formatting was retained, so if anyone reads it, please let me know if it's all gone or if it was retained. Personally, I don't think all that was necessary. On some pages, the formatting did indicate state of mind, but there were not many of those. The first pages of Kaleigh and Raeanne's parts are adjacent and written in such a way that words or phrases separated from the main text were the same. Jill, I changed the Adult rating. All the reviewers and my library systems designate the book as Young Adult, but I did put in both synopses that it contains profanity, obscenity, sex and incest. It's an interesting book; if it were a movie I'd say it was a little too long--and even as a book, in my personal opinion, it would have been as effective without the formatting and a little shorter--but I am not a best-selling and popular young-adult fiction author. Cindy WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm To 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.To 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.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.comVersion: 8.0.228 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1882 - Release Date: 1/8/2009 8:13 AMTo 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.To 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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