[bksvol-discuss] Getting books flat for scanning
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:57:50 -0400
There are a few methods to get your books flat and ready for scanning. Some
of these I don't recommend doing on a poor library book, though most library
books have such flexible spines you don't have to.
1. Chopping
Cut off the spine and feed pages through a document feeder, or as a friend
in Australia does, one page at a time on the scanner. Staples and Office
Max will rebind for you.
Just be careful not to loose any pages.
2. Pretend to read. When I get a new paperback, I will often times open the
book and go through it, pretending to read the print pages, pulling the
pages back and flattening them, one or two at a time, to get the book "read"
looking, and more flexible for the scanner.
3. Spine bent backwards, This only works for fairly flexible books, but
split the book along the pages, like you were reading the print book, and
then bend the covers and pages back as far as the book will allow. Continue
to do this with the rest of the book.
4. Last resort, break the glue.
To do this one, first never do it to a library book.
O.k. take book, open to the middle of the book, and place face down on the
floor. Step on the spine of the book preferably not hard, but you do what
ya gootta do. This may break the glue making the spine very quickly
flexible.
But, I prefer to leave this one as a last resort.
Happy scanning.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:06 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Dear Carrie and List,
Excuse the silly question but do you mean you literally chop? For example,
do you slice off bindings so the pages scan better? If so, how do you do
that?
Also, can anyone suggest how to flatten a book to get the best scan? I have
so many books I hope to scan and share but some I couldn't bear to chop,
while it would be all right with others because I would know they would
actually be read more if chopped than if not.
Always turning Pages,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
No no no, I didn't scan them all myself. There are maybe a dozen
volunteers who work at the office sometime during the week. Someone will
chop up a bunch of books, someone else will scan them, yesterday someone
OCRed 30 books, so all I did was take books that needed to be submitted and
submit them. It's a group effort, really it is! Thursday I'll chop, scan
and OCR some books and then someone else will probably submit them. It's
easier to do 20-30 books at a time thru each step than go thru the whole
process with just one book.
Carrie
Allison Mervis <allisonfm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wow! And you scanned all of those yourself? I'd better get crackin! Lol!
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrie Karnos"
To: "Bookshare Vol Group"
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submitted 36 books today
> Hi all,
>
> I submitted the following books this morning:
>
> To the Manner Born by John Chaloner
> Livia or Buried Alive by Lawrence Durrell
> Women Like Us by Erica Abeel
> Fat City by Leonard Gardner
> Believing Cassandra by Alan AtKisson
> Malafrena by Ursula K. LeGuin
> The Secret by Julie Garwood
> Breach of Duty by J. A. Jance
> Three Fates by Nora Roberts
> People of the Lake by Richard Leakey
> The Last Paradise by James D. Houston
> The Phantom of M anhattan by Frederick Forsyth
> The Gorbachev Phenomenon by Moshe Lewin
> Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister by Evelyn Keyes
> Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
> Heidelberg by Wolfgang Kootz
> Skeleton Dance by Aaron Elkins
> Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
> Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
> The Music Man by Meredith Willson
> Richard Hittleman's Introduction to Yoga by Richard Hittleman
> The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
> The Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis
> Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the US by William Burnham
> Frommer's 99 England
> Moving and Living Abroad by Albright, Chu and Austin
> Designing Babies by Roger Gosden
> The Challenge of the Sea by Arthur C. Clarke
> Over His Dead Body by Leslie Glass
> The Bang Devils by Patrick Foss
> My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
> The Struggle for Democracy by Greenberg and Page
> Mental Heal th: Culture, Race and Ethnicity by the US Dept of Health
and
> Human Services
>
> and some kiddie books:
> Andy and the Lion
> Mystery in the Night Woods
> Duffy and the Devil (Caldecott Medal book)
>
> In a few weeks, I'm leaving for a 3-week vacation in Europe, so I want
to
> make sure you all don't run out of books while I'm gone :-)
>
> Carrie
>
> PS, there's still another 30 books waiting to be chopped, 30 waiting
to
> scanned, 20 waiting to be OCRed, and 30 waiting to be submitted, in
case
> anyone is interested in the backlog here at the office. And those
don't
> include books from any of the contracts...
>
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