[bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:01:50 -0700 (PDT)
I'm willing to do that any time, assuming I can get the book. Just let me know.
G.Cindy
--- On Tue, 5/20/08, Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 10:12 AM
> Hi Jill,
>
> There are two options. One is to rescan the whole book, as
> you said, but there's another one which sounds like it
> would take less time. A sighted person could get the book
> from a library, ask me to put the book back on the download
> list, grab the book from the download list, put in the
> chapter titles WITH protection (like the page number), and
> upload it again. I approve it and we're done.
> If the book has a table of contents with the chapter titles
> listed, then a visually impaired person could do the same
> thing, using the table of contents to find the correct page
> to put the chapter title and protection. This is what Bob
> Wiley just did with the 3 Theodore Sturgeon books he was
> editing.
>
> Carrie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:29:04 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
>
>
> Carrie, When we read a book in the collection and
> find there are no chapter headings, the book otherwise
> being in excellent
> condition, is there anything that can be done about this
> other than rescanning
> the book? jill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carrie Karnos
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:02 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> I hate to say this, but I checked the first Sturgeon book,
> saw the several blank lines before each story title,
> approved the book, downloaded the DAISY version, and the
> story titles are gone. This is just flat wrong. I'll
> talk to Engineering about it tomorrow. I'll leave the
> other Sturgeon books in the approval queue until this gets
> sorted out.
>
> Sorry! It will get fixed, sooner or later (hopefully
> sooner!) Carrie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bookshare volunteer discussion
> <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:03:07 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
>
> I just wanted to give you kind folks a follow-up on the
> missing story titles
> in the Theodore Sturgeon collections.
>
> Originally, I noticed that just about all the titles of
> the stories in one
> of these collections was missing. My first thought was to
> blame the
> validator for not noticing this obvious error and fixing
> it. It turned out
> that Misha was the hapless recipient of my anger, and I
> know that he's a
> careful validator and wouldn't let something like that
> go. So then I thought
> of the scannor, which was Carrie. Carrie is also an
> excellent scannor and
> wouldn't let something like that get by. I was
> beginning to think of things
> like divine intervention and demon posession.
>
> I asked Carrie to send me the original document which was
> submitted by the
> validator, which she did, and "ah ha!" those
> ppesky titles were in place. In
> fact, they seemed to be grinning up at me as if to say...
> but, I digress.
>
> It turns out that the infamous stripper was doing the
> dirty to this
> collection.
>
> A short check of the bookshare collection shows that there
> are three other
> collections of Mr. Sturgeon's stories missing story
> titles in the bookshare
> collection.
>
> I have just uploaded those three books with, I hope, story
> titles in tact.
> It turns out that
> the solution is quite simple: I simply put a paragraph mark
> before and after
> all page breaks, and that damned stripper is fooled into
> leaving my titles
> alone.
>
> Just wanted to give a follow-up to this pesky problem.
>
> Bob
>
> "Strippers belong in bars, not
> libraries."--Author unknown.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:34 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
>
>
> > hmm, makes me wonder if the "stripper,"
> should be used at all? Aren't we
> > sophisticated enough by this time to handle the
> vagaries of what is
> > needed?
> > Or, maybe not?
> >
> > Curtis Delzer
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Devorah Greenstein"
> <DGreenstein@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:31 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
> >
> >
> > Ouch ouch. Like Bob, I am more confused now. Plus I
> don't have the
> > benefit of ever experiencing what these books are
> like after I validate
> > them because I'm sighted. So it's like
> dropping many hours of work into
> > a black hole and hoping for the best. And I, like
> many of you guys, am a
> > perfectionist. So I go over every word, check
> spellings in weird foreign
> > names, check everything, make it as perfect as I can,
> and upload it.
> >
> > But then what is happening to my work?
> >
> > I always do the wonderful ^p^m^p thing so that there
> are blank lines on
> > either side of the page breaks. But I have NOT been
> re-typing each page
> > number on the top of a page if the page numbers are
> at the bottom.
> >
> > I have left page numbers at the bottom of the page.
> Am I now correct in
> > my understanding that they all get wiped out? Even if
> there is a blank
> > line between the page number and the following page
> break?
> >
> > I do put a page number on the top of the first page
> of a chapter. It
> > just makes sense to do that. But is it mandatory put
> all other page
> > numbers at the top of each page?
> >
> > If the mysterious stripper is so smart can't it
> tell numeric characters
> > from alphabetic characters and leave numeric page
> numbers at the bottom
> > of the page?
> >
> > Devorah
> >
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