[bksvol-discuss] OT: Big happy birthday to Lori!
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:51:27 -0700 (PDT)
Happy birthday,Lori. I hope you had a wonderful day and wish for you a very
happy and healthy year.
Cindy
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--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need A Validater For a BSO Please
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 8:00 AM
> Monica and Marilyn, I have the book. I am going through it
> after reading the intro pages to see if any pages are
> missing, then will read through.
>
> I will do a lot of work on it today. Took the evening off
> as yesterday was my birthday--the big 60.
>
> Looks like a very interesting book.
>
> Cat Lover Lori
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marilyn Beasley
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Monica Willyard
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:47 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need A Validater For a BSO
> Please
>
>
> Hi, Monica. Hi, All.
>
>
> I'd be perfectly happy to help with your book,
> Monica, but it's already off Step 1.
> If anybody needs help, my library has the book and if I
> can be of assistance,
> write me at mbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Marilyn
>
>
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Monica Willyard wrote:
>
>
> Hi, everybody. If any of you have time, I could really
> use some help with validation of a book I just submitted. I
> did some really messy scans when I was a new volunteer and
> had been promising myself I'd rescan them. So I just put
> up a BSO of The DNA Of Relationships, by Gary Smalley and
> others. The movers are coming for my print books soon, so I
> won't have access to this book after next week. I've
> run rank spelling and fixed all obvious errors in the scan.
> It's at 99.95 percent accuracy. So a validater just
> needs to read it, remove headers if desired, and make sure
> all pages are present. The pages have some blank lines on
> them due to drawings, and Bookshare's tools can remove
> those so you don't have to do those by hand. I deleted
> all garbled text associated with the illustrations. I'd
> like to make sure this book is ok so Bookshare won't
> have to buy it later as part of their plan to replace books
> that are rated fair or that are really messed up. I'd be
> grateful to anyone who can take this on for me. (smile)
> I've left comments about the book on its download page,
> and I still have the print book right now if anything needs
> to be replaced. Thanks in advance to anyone who will help.
>
>
> --
> Monica Willyard
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