[bksvol-discuss] Re: My Mistakes, WAS: Re: Found this interesting

  • From: "Lynn I" <lynnskyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:55:31 -0500

Hi!

The way the settings are now, when you reply, you reply to the entire list.
*smile*

Blessings.

Lynnsky
 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:53 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My Mistakes, WAS: Re: Found this interesting

Hi everyone!

Sorry, I really thought Gwen was the only person getting this.

I thought about taking this off list, but obviously I didn't, though meaning
to.

Debby

At 06:04 PM 4/11/2010, Debby Franson wrote
>Hi Gwen!
>
>Do you mostly proofread children's books?  Since they are short books, 
>that would explain your high volume of proofreads.  I know you are 
>making the kids happy if you are doing their books.  I don't have 
>nearly as many proofreads because most of my books I choose from the 
>checkout list have hundreds of pages, so it naturally takes me longer to
read through them.
>
>Have all of your books been accepted right off?  I have had to make 
>minor corrections on two of them.  One was because I made a replace all 
>change and some stuff was saved by word automatically when I didn't 
>actively save, because I decided instantly I didn't want the change, so 
>I closed the file and reloaded it, and then forgot to go back and check 
>out the previous part of the book that I had already read.  It was put 
>up on the checkout list with a hold for me, so I checked it out, 
>followed the instructions from the Bookshare team that told me what 
>corrections I needed to make, which were very easy to fix, taking five 
>or ten minutes in all, because I was extra careful searching a second 
>time to make sure everything was corrected and was glad when word made 
>0 replacements, meaning that everything was fine, so, I checked in the 
>corrected book, and it was accepted.
>
>The second time was two page 96 on one page, one at the bottom and one 
>at the top.  I was told which one to delete and there was a page I was 
>to get rid of that was blank that wasn't a real page, I guess, and then 
>I was ready to check the book back in and it was accepted, too, soon after
that.
>
>We can all miss stuff, so, if this ever happens to you, just follow 
>their simple instructions and check in the book, and it will be accepted.
>
>I think what happened in both cases is that I had finished the book at 
>bedtime and checked them in the next day and forgot I had a little 
>something to check before checking in the book.  I'm pretty careful 
>though, and read every word with my synthesizer.  Do you have a braille 
>display, or do you read all by speech too?
>
>Debby
>
>At 06:48 AM 4/9/2010, gwen tweedy wrote
>>Considering my rocky start here, I found this quite interesting, No 
>>grand shakes, but for me hey not bad considering in spite of me LOL.
>>25  submissions
>>and:
>>72 proofreads.
>>I am glad instead of struggling in what I could not do well, I found 
>>something I could do.
>>
>>not bad for one who gave up and quit.
>>Gwen
>>
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