[bksvol-discuss] Re: Introduction and lots of questions.
- From: Courtney Stover <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:37:22 -0500
John,
Unfortunately, I'm a Kurzweil user, not an Open Book one, so I can't
answer your specific scanning questions. I was writing to say that
I'm thrilled to see someone else interested in folklore joining the
lists.
I don't know if you're familiar with the work of Jack Zipes; he deals
a lot with the reinterpretation of folklore and mythology to suit
particular time periods, especially the architypes that are being
subverted in the retellings of modern faerietales. If you possess any
of his work, it would be a wonderful addition to the collection, and
if you don't, you might want to check it out *smile*
I'll stop now, because this is skirting dangerously near to off topic
territory, but I wanted to welcome you to the community.
Courtney
On 10/15/10, Larry Lumpkin <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll try to answer some of your questions. I'll put my answers below your
> questions. If this doesn'st work for you, my skype name is LarryLumpkin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:51 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Introduction and lots of questions.
>
> Hi. My name's John, I'm blind, and I signed up to submit books recently.
> I've got a degree in religious studies with a minor in folklore, so my
> nonfiction interests tend to run in that direction. I play a bunch of
> instruments from all over the world, more or less well, so that's another
> interest. Computers of course, but I suspect that's true of most of us or
> we wouldn't be here. OK, on to the questions.
>
> I just got the pearl and openbook 9. I'll try to number these to make them
> easier to respond to. So does anybody:
>
> 1. Have tips for scanning with pearl? I've noticed for some books, one was
> a hard cover and so far as I know has no pictures though I'll check, that
> you'll get some pages that are fine, and then some pages that are gibberish,
> words/lines out of order, etc. So far as I know I'm holding the book the
> same way, holding down each opposite corner, diagonally, to hold the book
> open. Is this a lighting issue? I'd assumed the LCD light would be enough
> to scan even if the room's dark, but maybe I could put a lamp by the desk
> and use that instead? Any tips on how to make sure books stay open and flat
> enough, Etc? Basically if you've found a way to get really good scans with
> this thing, I'd love to hear about it.
>
> We bought the Pearl and openbook 9 and found the Pearl so unsatisfactory for
> books that we returned it but kept open book. I found that book shooting
> with the Pearl was unacceptable under any conditions I could think of. I
> found it worked very well with flat pieces of mail and paper and books that
> were spiral bound but any book with a curved spine was totally
> unsatisfactory. I, like you, would love other input on the Pearl. A friend
> of mine here also has had unsatisfactory results with books and the Pearl
> but is keeping his in hopes it gets better. I didn't have $600 to waste.
>
>
> 2. Bookshare says we want page breaks but not line breaks, how much does
> this matter? I for one would like to preserve line breaks in any poetry I
> scan.
>
> As for open book. I like version 9 very much. I'd choose the "poetry and
> recipe" work flow for poetry and submits like that. My wife, Susan might
> address more specific formatting questions for bookshare. I have been a
> Kurzweil user for many years and find some features of k1000 that I like
> very much such as the ability to shorten the scanner bed with "margin
> auto-size" and knowing the confidence after each page or spread scan.
>
> 3. If anybody has specifics for working with openbook I'd appreciate those
> as well, I've never touched its editing features before. Do you just scan
> the whole book and manipulate it later, scan a page at a time, or something
> else? What's the magic for removing headers and footers but still
> preserving page numbers? How about renumbering pages?
> Suppose for instance you have an introduction with Roman numerals for page
> numbers, do you leave those unnumbered and just number the rest of the
> pages, and if so, how do you do that?
>
> Unfortunately, I've found no way to set the page number to account for
> preliminary pages in openbook. What I do is to begin my scan at the point
> in the book which I have determined as page 1, and go back and append prior
> preliminary material after I finish scanning the book. I am a new open book
> user so haven't tried to remove headers and/or footers but think this can be
> done. I'd sure back up my work before attempting this though.
>
>
> That should be enough for now. If anybody would find it easier to talk to
> me directly, let me know and I'll throw out my contact info for msn and
> skype and such. I know for some people it's easier to just have a
> conversation, rather than doing email. I haven't really scanned any books
> yet, because I figure if I scan them, I can submit them. So I'm pretty
> eager to find out how this all works. I have read the scanning and
> proofreading guide BTW.
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