[bksvol-discuss] Re: Mao's Last Dancer
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:12:35 -0700 (PDT)
Don't feel guilty, Mickey. If it's one of little
interest to most people, then that's the only way
it's going to get into the collection. I've done that
with two books that I couldn't bear to read word for
word but thought belonged in the collection. Sort of
eye-balling it as I paginated, it didn't look too bad,
and my eye did catch a couple of things that the
spell-check would have missed--but it looked as if the
submitter had done a good job him/herself. The only
problem, besides no page breaks, that had been
mentioned was charts and pictures, and those I put in
the captions for and deleted the garbage that had
resulted.
Some books aren't going to get into the collection
except for people doing what you did--and if a reader
wants to do more clean-up, if it's necesssary, he/she
can always do it and submit it as a replacement.
re Mao's Last Dancer--it's a good book, very
interesting, and I think it should be in the
collection, and I don't really mind reading it again.
I'll probably wait a bit, though.
The Speckled Monster is another, rather long but very
well-written nonfiction history/biography book that I
read a while ago and would be happy to re-read and
validate if no one else wants to. The book was so
interestingly written that I even read the notes for
each chapter at the end of the book, which I rarely
do. It's about 18th-century vaccination techniques,
before Jenner, called variolation, that stopped
smallpox epidemics in Boston and in England despite
opposition and disbelief on the part of doctors and
politicians, and what the two people who pressed the
issue, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston in Boston and Lady Mary
Montague in England went through.
Here's a brief synopsis from the B&N website to pique
your interest. (I think what I'm quoting is short
enough to fall within copyright guidelines to be o.k.
to quote. smile) "The Speckled Monster weaves a
remarkable tale of two heroic individuals in the war
against smallpox: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the
maverick wife of one of Britain's wealthiest men; and
Zabdiel Boylston, a Boston practitioner without formal
training or a medical degree. These brave ... figures
would bring scorn and danger upon themselves, their
families, and their associates by shunning the elitist
views of Western physicians and embracing a "folk
remedy" long employed in Asian and African countries:
innoculation...."
Cindy
> I spellchecked a book Wednesday and checked the
> pages. But I'm feeling
> guilty, even if I'm 99% sure it was fine.
>
>
> Mickey Prahin
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:39 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Mao's Last Dancer
>
>
> > That's probably one I'd just reject, but then,
> that's just me. If there's
> > too much missing text, the book isn't complete,
> and with validators
> > getting
> > the lesser credit, I don't believe validators
> should really have to do
> > that
> > much work on a scan like that...unless you want
> to, of course. In that
> > case,
> > have fun. <smile> Take care.
> > Julie Morales
> > Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our
> gift to Him.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "mickey" <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:09 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Mao's Last Dancer
> >
> >
> > Hi. Mao's Last Dancer has been on step-one for
> quite a while, so I took
> > it.
> > There are lots of words missing--probably in the
> margins. It can be read
> > with intuition. Now, should I put it in the poor
> category? Most of it
> > scanned quite well. Should I put it in good? It
> doesn't seem that good, in
> > that some words are partial, some gone completely,
> and I can't guess at
> > what
> > they are. Should I reject it? Should I release it
> and let someone else,
> > someone more patient than I, see if he/she can
> figure it out?
> >
> > Confused in Columbus
> >
> >
> > Mickey Prahin
> > micka@xxxxxxxxxx
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