[bksvol-discuss] Re: For Bob About Kurzweil and Zip Files

  • From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:01:02 -0600

Last time I used winrar it kept bugging me to send them money, but that was a long time ago. 


Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia" <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:54 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: For Bob About Kurzweil and Zip Files
Hi, I use winrar to unzip my books, do you know if that program works the same way? 
Julia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 9:17 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] For Bob About Kurzweil and Zip Files



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> 
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Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 2:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection




Does that mean that when proofreading books tables and charts won't have
to be translated into sentences?

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


--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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






















Gary,
according
to Jim F. and Susie, Bookshare is going to begin retaining
images for educational
books soon. It won't affect us because the images
won't be part of the
files our technology uses. They'll be extra files
sighted users can access.
Jim and Susie have discussed this project in some of their
public seminars and speeches.
I think sighted members will love it.






Monica
Willyard

"The
best way to
predict the future is to create it." -- Peter
Drucker











From:
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro

Sent: Friday,
February 27, 2009
2:18 AM

To:
bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject:
[bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps
in the collection







But those books
will more than likely have pictures and
their pictorial content may well be central to their
point.  I don't see
how most of us will be able to do justice to such
titles.  Nor do I see
BookShare changing to include diagrams, photographs,
or line art.













----- Original
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From: Monica Willyard






To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx






Sent: Monday,
February
23, 2009 3:04 PM





Subject:
[bksvol-discuss]
Re: gaps in the collection









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
also don't have
many books about flower arranging, varieties of flowers and
plants, and
landscaping. Many of our books about houseplants and
gardening are rated fair
and are hard to read. They aren't visible to new
members by default. In
fact, our "Home and Garden" category is fairly
anemic, especially
since around half of the 181 books are Shelley's
series of
children's books about animals that are
"nature's
children." If you watch TV, networks like TLC,
A&E, Style, and HGTV
are full of shows about decorating, remodeling, and
restoring houses or about
planting lovely gardens and landscaping with designs that
flatter the style of
a home.




So far,
Bookshare's collection
doesn't reflect these types of interests. I
haven't figured out if
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
that sighted people read books on these subjects and think
they will expect to
see books about these topics in the
collection.






Monica
Willyard

"The
best way to
predict the future is to create it." -- Peter
Drucker
















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