[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith59@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 06:30:02 -0400
Hi Bob.
Unless we get some other kind of official answer which contradicts me,
I believe you can fix the story titles and then resubmit the book with
BSO in front of the title to indicate that it is an improved copy to
replace one already in the collection. You might then want to put a
note in the comments field for the validator that tells what you've
done.
Story titles and chapter headings are often difficult pieces to get to
scan correctly because they are often in a different font, a different
color, or as in this last book I've worked on, written vertically down
the margin of the page - all of which I'm sure is visually intriguing
but which does not amuse most OCR software! For those of us who have
been scanning since the stone age of OCR, missing titles was just one
of the sacrifices we were willing to make in order to have access to
the over-all text. However, now that both OCR and our attention to
detail has improved, it is no longer a sacrifice any of us should have
to make. That's especially true in the type of book you're trying to
read as knowing when you've changed short stories is quite important.
It's one of the things I rely on my live-in sighted volunteer to help
me correct before I submit books these days.
So there's my opinion of your question as well as a little OCR
history. <smile> Hope this helps and that you can help us get a
better quality book back in the collection.
Donna
On 5/2/08, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have just downloaded "
> Thunder and Roses: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume 4"
> listed in the new books section of the website.
>
>
>
> It's a great scan and validation: except for one minor problem. The story
> titles are missing from the text.
>
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>
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think the story titles are somewhat important in a
> collection of short stories, unless you are willing to read the book from
> cover to cover, or don't mind having your point of view wrenched drastically
> from one point-of-view/character/setting to another one without warning.
>
>
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> I think I can fix the problem fairly easily, as long as the page numbers in
> the book correspond to the page numbers in the table of contents. What do I
> do then? I will wind up with a .kes file that can be converted to an .rtf
> file. Can I get my amended version put back into the collection?
>
>
>
> I presume there are at least three previous books in this series. Are they
> also missing story titles?
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>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
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>
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