[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to correct errors in books in the collection
- From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:16:13 -0700
Good question. I will find out from the technical folks and reply shortly.
Lisa
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:12:09 -0400
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to correct errors in books in the
collection
Just out of curiosity, it I take a html file from
bookshare, import it into k1000 and save as rtf
which of the things mentioned in your message do I lose?
E.
At 01:06 PM 6/6/2007, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Here¹s our summary of the process for correcting books with bad content
>the issue we were discussing on the list for the last couple of days.
>
>Bookshare.org is now requesting that books be rescanned if a volunteer
>wishes to improve a book in the collection. Here¹s why:
>
>After reviewing the various options for converting books in the collection
>to one of the formats required for submission, it has been determined that
>unfortunately, there is no way to convert a book already in the collection
>to a submission format without an unnacceptable reduction in the subsequent
>quality of the books navigation.
>
>Depending on which option would be used, the resulting file will be missing
>page breaks or page numbers, and it may be missing formatting such as bold,
>italic, underlining or text size. Since the loss of quality could be as
>much, if not more, than the quality gained by cleaning up the text,
>Bookshare.org has decided that it is in the best interests of its members at
>this time for books to be rescanned if a volunteer wishes to improve the
>quality of a book.
>
>Thanks, Lisa and the Bookshare.org team
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