[bksvol-discuss] For Bob About Kurzweil and Zip Files
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:17:56 -0500
Bob, I have a tip for you. Unzipping books with Kurzweil makes a lot of
extra work for you. There is a faster way if you're interested. If not,
please just delete this email. (smile)
Try Unzipping your downloaded books using a free program called 7-Zip before
reading them in Kurzweil. Say you have 20 books you want unzipped. Open
you're my Computer window and go to the folder with your books in it. Use
shift and your arrow keys to select them all and press your applications
key. Press 7 for 7-Zip and press enter on extract files. It'll prompt you
for the directory and let you type in the password one time. It'll use that
password on all 20 books and have them extracted before you take your next
sip of coffee. You can have the program extract your books to the books
folder in Kurzweil if you want, and you can set the program to skip
duplicate files so you don't have to answer a prompt with each book about
replacing the daisy.css files and such. This program is very easy to use and
is fast too. Since you used to do some programming, I'll let you know that
it can run on the command line as well. It's at http://www.7-zip.com It's
open-source, so you won't pay a dime to give it a try.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 4:58 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection
I would hope that scannors or proofreaders will continue to describe
pictures and charts.
Graphics and charts present a special problem for us using Kurzweil. When
opening a book from bookshare we have to enter the password for each file in
the zipped folder. Each graphic is a separate file. Therefore, we have to
enter the password multiple times, one for each file in the zipped folder.
I've noticed a few books that, when downloading, we have a choice to
download a zipped file with graphics or one without graphics.
So, since we may now download a book without graphics, those notes from
scannors and proofreaders are even more important.
Thanks.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Rosenthal" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 2:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection
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> Does that mean that when proofreading books tables and charts won't have
> to be translated into sentences?
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> 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
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> A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
> http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
> www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm
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> --- On Fri, 2/27/09, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 9:01 AM
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>> Jim and Susie have discussed this project in some of their
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>> Hi Carrie.
>> Since Bookshare serves sighted
>> people, I see some gaps others may not have mentioned.
>> Books about defensive
>> driving, car maintenance, beauty/fashion, bird watching,
>> scrapbooking, and home
>> decorating and remodeling are missing from Bookshare. We
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>> many books about flower arranging, varieties of flowers and
>> plants, and
>> landscaping. Many of our books about houseplants and
>> gardening are rated fair
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>> fact, our "Home and Garden" category is fairly
>> anemic, especially
>> since around half of the 181 books are Shelley's
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>> children's books about animals that are
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>> children." If you watch TV, networks like TLC,
>> A&E, Style, and HGTV
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>> restoring houses or about
>> planting lovely gardens and landscaping with designs that
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>> this lack of content is due to lack of interest from
>> submitters or if the
>> material is difficult to scan. It could be a combination of
>> both. I do know
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>> Monica
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