[bksvol-discuss] Re: God a biography
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:14:59 -0700 (PDT)
I'll pass. smile.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Amber recently submitted a raw scan of God: A
> Biography by Jack Miles.
>
> It has sporatic missing words scattered through the
> text. It either needs
> to be re-scanned or someone needs to take it and fix
> it up with a print
> copy at hand.
>
> I will release it to step 1 if someone wants to take
> it on. Someone please
> write back about this book.
> Numbers for biblical citations will also need to be
> corrected. Often
> numbers appear miss-scanned as letters.
> E.
>
>
> At 09:32 PM 6/23/2006, you wrote:
>
> >Katie,
> >
> >It's best to put a blank line on either side of the
> page number and a blank
> >line on either side of the page break.
> >
> >Out of the wild
> >
> >[page break]
> >
> >46
> >
> >As he ran down the road ...
> >
> >This makes the Stripper's job easy and makes the
> page numbers comeout well
> >in the HTML file.
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Gerald
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Katie Star
> >Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 4:33 PM
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for
> scanning
> >
> >Hello Julie and Lissi,
> >
> >I think there is so much information here that
> often times we ask a question
> >again because when it came around the last time we
> weren't ready for it.
> >
> >Here is my question. Which is preferred
> >
> >Out of the wild 46
> >
> >As he ran down the road
> >
> >Or
> >
> >Out of the wild
> >
> >46
> >
> >As he ran down the road ...
> >
> >I thought I read that it is preferred to have the
> page number with a blank
> >line on either side. Maybe it makes no difference.
> >
> >Katie Hill
> >Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in
> opposition to
> >
> >what we know of Nature.
> >
> >-St. Augustine
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Julie Morales
> >Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:17 PM
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for
> scanning
> >
> >Hi, Lissi. Page numbers do now appear in the
> braille files, and I've been
> >meaning to discuss this with you, anyway. I'm
> finally getting around to
> >looking at A CELTIC CHRISTMAS, which was submitted
> after the BRF files were
> >redone, and there are two page numbers in the file
> now. There's the page
> >number the Bookshare system puts in, then the page
> number I'm assuming you
> >put in, so somehow, they didn't end up matching up.
> That's another reason, I
> >
> >suppose, I just leave the headers in, especially if
> the page number appears
> >in that header, which often, in the books I scan,
> it does. Take care.
> >Julie Morales
> >Email:
> >mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >Windows/MSN Messenger only (no email):
> mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >Skype: mercy0421
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 3:11 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for
> scanning
> >
> >
> >Dear Volunteers,
> >
> >I'm interested in the answer to Rick's question,
> too. When I validate I
> >delete the running headers. Am I confusing the
> system even more than usual
> >by doing this. And, are page numbers better at the
> top? I thought the last
> >word was it didn't matter, but I'd gladly put them
> uniformly at the top.
> >
> >I know they should be all at the top or all at the
> bottom but not in mixed
> >locations within a book.
> >
> >If brf file users have a never fail system for
> protecting page numbers so
> >they appear in the collections downloaded books,
> I'd be relieved to have
> >this foolproof method and would use it religiously.
> >
> >Currently, I've abandoned my extra blank line with
> a line of dash dash dash,
> >and just place a blank line above and below page
> numbers.
> >
> >Always with love,
> >
> >Lissi
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:05 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Headers question for
> scanning
> >
> >
> > >I have a question for scanning books for
> submission.
> > > As I understand it, there is something called a
> stripper, which looks to
> > > the
> > > top of each page for the page number, and strips
> out the text that is
> > > there,
> > > which is usually repeated text like title on one
> page, chapter title or
> > > author on the other.
> > >
> > > Since as a listening reader to this book, the
> repetitive text is not
> > > really
> > > essential and mostly just a distraction from the
> narrative, I like the
> > > Daisy
> > > books I have downloaded from Bookshare where the
> page numbers are all that
> > > I
> > > hear. I figure this must be a recent thing,
> since many other Bookshare
> > > books I have read do have the header text in
> there.
> > >
> > > Now, my queistion -- Should we as scanners of
> the book remove this text?
> > > I have heard folks talk about moving page
> numbers to top of page. But I
> > > have not heard yet if we should remove the text.
> > >
> > > Hoping to start scanning The Big Bam, the new
> biography of Babe Ruth this
> > > weekend.
> > >
> > > If this is so, perhaps it could be stated in the
> information for the new
> > > Bookshare members when they begin to scan and
> submit to our collection.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Rik
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