[bksvol-discuss] Re: If text is too good
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:14:32 -0500
Mike, unfortunately you did not provide us with the title, author,
copyright information needed to eve n start guessing about the provenence
of the book you are working on. In general, if you are concerned about a
book, you should consider providing such information to your postings.
Otherwise, to a hypothetical question you can only get a hypothetical
answer.
I might be able to determine if the book in question is a publisher's
etext based on things appearing or missing from the front/back of the
book, original file name, size, dosname, etc....
Thanks, Guido
Guido D. Corona
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IBM Research,
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Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
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[bksvol-discuss] If text is too good
I'm right now working on validating a book that almost seems too perfect
leading me to question whether the submission might be an etext from
somewhere else.
It's definitely not webb-Braille or another blindness group; but
formatting seems perfect and I am not coming up with spelling errors.
I certainly don't want to erroneously intimate that something wasn't
scanned; so what might be some ways of seeking to verify the authenticity
of a submission without outright questioning the submitter?
Or should I just validate the book indicating my concerns in the comment
field and let Palo Alto decide for themselves.
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