[bksvol-discuss] Re: Moving around pages in a book--can some1please check this book
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:22:29 -0800
I, too, did the peek on Amazon and found that chapter one begins on p. 17;
chapter 5 on p. 21; chapter 7 on p. 30; chapter 10 on p. 41
HTH
cindy
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Netta,
>
> Whatever you end up doing, remember that the text that's on a page with a
> specific page number has to stay with that same page number, in order to
> match the page numbering in the version of the printed book that was
> scanned. An exception occurs when a word is split between pages. In that
> case, you should concatenate the word (goodness, I never thought I'd use
> that word! grin), and choose whether to put the whole word on the bottom of
> the page it starts on, or the top of the next page where the split word
> finished.
>
> Sometimes books have pages of photographs or images that aren't numbered;
> in other words there is, for example, a page 25 with text on it, then three
> pages of images, then the text starts up again on the fourth page, but with
> that page actually numbered as page 26, meaning that the three pages of
> images fall outside the original printed book's consecutive page numbering
> layout. If the unnumbered pages of images have something on them that
> scanned, like image captions, you can move the unnumbered pages with those
> captions to the back of the book. At the start of those pages, in their new
> location, just put a note in the book that says something in square
> brackets like "The following unnumbered pages that contained images were
> moved to the back of the book. Otherwise, if they appear blank, in that
> case it's fine to delete them.
>
> I've found when I've been proofreading that many times a page that has
> been labeled "blank page" by the scanner really did contain an image in the
> original book. Almost always, whether or not the page was really blank or
> had an image, those pages have to remain in the book because they are
> counted in the original page numbering for the book. Once or twice in the
> hundreds of books I've proofread a book contained a blank page in the
> middle of the book that truly was a blank page that also wasn't part of the
> consecutive numbering sequence.
>
> I've run into a few books that had only the even or the odd page numbering
> when I proofed the scan. Almost always the original book actually had the
> rest of the page numbers, but they were lost when headers or footers were
> stripped from the book during the scanning. However, I have one or two
> books that really did only have page numbers for either the even or the odd
> numbered pages in the original printed book. For whatever it is worth, I
> was told by staff to fill in the missing page numbers, even though they
> didn't appear in the original printed text. I think may help Bookshare's
> conversion tools correctly analyze and convert the books into their final
> accessible form, but I'm not sure what the exact reason is.
>
> I hope all that helps, and hopefully I'm not muddying the waters! smile.
>
> Judy s.
>
> On 2/4/2013 9:07 PM, Dornetta wrote:
>
>
> "Hey guys;
> The book in question is Little Black Girl Lost 4:
>
> THE DIARY OF JOSEPHINE BAPTISTE****
> by Keith Lee Johnson. The ISBN# is:
>
> 978-1-60751-642-2
>
> I need to know on what page does chapter 1 starts and the subsequent
> chapters after that. I figure that if I can get the page numbers for the
> beginning of the chapters then re-numbering the pages or at least
> straightening out the even page numbers may be a breeze, hopefully. The
> scanner hasn't gotten back to me yet but pretty confident that she
> eventually will since she is usually a contributor to the list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Netta
> Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder
>
>
>
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