[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need a Volunteer to Proofread a Science Fiction Book
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:47:09 -0500
Thanks Aidee, since it’s interlibrary loan, it’ll probably be a couple weeks
before I get the book and get it scanned. I’ll let you know when it’s ready if,
as you say, noone else wants to do it.
Thanks again.
Incidentally, I probably should have added in my original post that I’m
rereading Neverness in preparation for reading my scan of the first volume in
Zindell’s Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy, The Broken God, of which Neverness
is a standalone prequel. Bookshare has the second and third volumes in that
trilogy direct from the publisher but not the first one. Bookshare got them
over four years ago, so it seems unlikely the publisher, Bantam, will be
sending the first one. I can only speculate that, since it was published in
1994, there’s no electronic copy to send. So once I get The Broken God into the
collection, the trilogy will be complete, and with Neverness redone properly,
all four of Zindell’s very imaginative and thoughtful books set in that
universe will be in excellent quality. I’ll be glad to have played a part in
that.
Evan
From: Aidee Campa
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 2:27 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need a Volunteer to Proofread a Science Fiction
Book
Hello Evan:
This is Aidee. If no one else has volunteered to proofread this book, I’d be
happy to do it. Marilyn can vouch for me that I read through books very
carefully to make sure there are no scannos.
Let me know.
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 11:16 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Need a Volunteer to Proofread a Science Fiction Book
Hey Guys,
I want to do a BSO of a book, and I need someone to volunteer to proofread it.
It’s called Neverness by David Zindell. Anyone who likes can read about it at:
http://www.amazon.com/Neverness-David-Zindell/dp/0553279033/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424717690&sr=1-1&keywords=neverness+zindell
It’s a first novel. Publishers Weekly didn’t like it much, but Library Journal
does. While I can somewhat agree with some of PW’s complaints, I think it’s a
great book, especially for a first novel. The text in the current copy seems to
be okay, but in the brf version, there are page numbers in the middles of
lines, (meaning that they’re not associated with a page break), hyphens for em
dashes or double dashes, missing quotation marks and merged paragraphs. I want
to get a decent copy into the collection.
However, I need to get someone who’ll read it word for word because I don’t
want to read through my scan myself. The reason is because I read this book
about 25 years ago when it first came out on cassette from NLS, and I’m
rereading the NLS version, narrated by one of my favorite narrators, Roy Avers.
I got tired of waiting for it to come out on BARD, so I’m reading the cassette
version again. It’s a great book, but fairly long, and I don’t want to read it
twice in the near future.
I’m getting a copy from the library. It’s an interlibrary loan, and the
librarian couldn’t tell me what format the book was in, but it’s highly
unlikely to be a mass market paperback, so I’m confident I’ll get a very high
quality scan of it. But there are bound to be errors in it that only an actual
read through will catch.
Anyone out there interested in taking this on? I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks much.
Evan
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