[bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:20:04 -0500
Hi Mayrie, I've seen very few books in the collection that have meaningful
daisy navigational schemas. Mostly it's nonexistent, but when it is there it
often seems to be haphazard. Obviously, when publishers put different font
sizes in a book they don't have daisy navigation in mind.
By the way, what's the correct spelling of daisy? Does anyone know what it
stands for?
When I think of daisy it reminds me of the last scene with HAL in the movie
2001, a space odyssey. Now that'll take a real Clarke aficionado to know what
I'm talking about.
Bob (with another stream-of-consciousness message)
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for
it back when it begins to rain."
----- Original Message -----
From: Mayrie ReNae
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates
Hi Bob,
It's true that picture descriptions are lost in publisher quality books
and that is truly grievous. However, chapter headings are still enlarged in
the publisher quality books so that they appear as headings in daisy navigation.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:42 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates
Jamie brings up a good point.
However, I think this brings up another question, how literal should we take
this?
One thing I do when I proof a book is to change the font size for chapter
headings so that they are navigable in a daisy format, which, in my opinion,
improves the book for bookshare users. Also, what about all those books for
pre-school kids with wonderful picture descriptions. In my opinion, again,
these are improvements to the bookshare collection rather than changes to the
publisher's intent.
All these changes would be abolished if a book of publisher quality came
along to replace them.
Bob
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask
for it back when it begins to rain."
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Yates, CPhT
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:05 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If You See Duplicates
Kim, we are not allowed to clean up typographical errors in books either.
If it is in the print book wrong, it has to be in the Bookshare file wrong, too.
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Jamie in Michigan
Currently Reading: Miss Julia Hits the Road by Ann B. Ross
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