[bksvol-discuss] Re: Ooops -- Sorry
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:02:43 -0600
<<<smile> One timmme when I first goot a computer I wrote to one of my
friiends and, since the computer acted like it didn't send I wrote this
person five times. You guessed it--my friend got them all and just for fun
answered all of them.
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:22 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Ooops -- Sorry
I had started to write a letter, hit a key on the
keyboard -- I don't even know what -- and the letter
disappeared -- so I wrote it again. Now I see the part
I'd written got sent, I know now how. Please ignore
this, or forgive the duplication in the second letter.
Cindy
-- Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Tony,
>
> Any time you have a book that has errors, if I can
> get
> the book from the library I'm happy to check for
> you.
> Don't fee shy about asking. I think that's one area
> in
> which I can be most help.
>
>
>
> -
>
> -- Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi. For the most part, I agree with you
> completely.
> > I am not going to ask
> > a sighted person to check a book either. If I am
> in
> > doubt, I will leave
> > the word alone, even though I know it is wrong.
> One
> > recent example is
> > puRhed or some such. It is obviously wrong but I
> > have no idea what it
> > could be. I am not going to take a chance on
> > inventing a word and possibly
> > exposing myself and/or bookshare to law suits
> > because the core content of
> > the book was changed. Someone else can get and
> > rescan the printed book if
> > it is a big enough deal. Finally, I'll just add
> > that while I don't read
> > print, I do know that the shapes of letters are
> > different, so t instead of
> > r could not be an OCR error even if it looks like
> > one because the shape of
> > the letter is different. But then, one
> particularly
> > funny scanning error
> > is "taco" instead of "fate."
> >
> > At 10:08 AM 3/8/2005 -0600, you wrote:
> > >It is much more likely that r and t would be
> > confused by the OCR
> > >software than by the publishers. Yes, they do
> make
> > mistakes, but you
> > >should normally be able to guess correctly about
> > errors. The more
> > >experience you have in editing the more you learn
> > what is within the
> > >relm of possibility for scannos, and what
> obviously
> > was a mistake in the
> > >book. You know that we can't always make the
> books
> > we scan perfect, so
> > >we don't have to give up scanning and editing if
> we
> > are blind and can't
> > >always check the print book. I am not going to
> > waste the time of sited
> > >people asking them to check every little mistake
> > when there is about a
> > >one in a million chance that the mistake is not a
> > scanno. If I
> > >accidently change/correct a letter that I am
> > certain was a scanno, and
> > >it really was a mistake in the book, I'll just
> > pretend that my change
> > >was a scanno. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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