[bksvol-discuss] Re: Please don't kill me

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:05:51 -0800 (PST)

Good idea. Do you make corrections as you go and
before you submit? That certainly will make the
validation eaier and go faster. smile

G.Cindy

--- Eric Troup <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Okay.  It's a finished scan, but I'm still reading
> it, and I make it a 
> policy to not submit a bok to Bookshare till I've
> read it myself.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:18 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Please don't kill me
> 
> 
> >I read the reviews at Amazon.com and it sounds like
> a
> > fun book, but it's so new--just published in
> February,
> > that none of my libraries has it yet. However,
> when
> > you're finished scanning, submit it with a hold
> for me
> > and I'll validate it when I get the book. No
> hurry, as
> > I have the Princess books and others to do first.
> >
> > G.Cindy
> >
> > --- Eric Troup <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> The book is called "The Automatic Detective," by
> A.
> >> Lee Martinez.  It's
> >> about a robot who becomes a detective in order to
> >> find his kidnapped
> >> neighbors, the closest thing he has to family. 
> It's
> >> great so far, very
> >> "pulpy."
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:27 AM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Please don't kill
> me
> >>
> >>
> >> > What is the book? If it interests me, I'll take
> it
> >> at
> >> > some point, but not for a while because I have
> too
> >> > many lined up to do at the moment, i.e., my
> five
> >> > downloaded and some promised.
> >> >
> >> > If I decide to do it you can put hold for me
> and
> >> put
> >> > in the comments that it needs a sighted
> validator.
> >> >
> >> > G.Cindy
> >> >
> >> > --- Eric Troup <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Well, I just scanned a book using the demo of
> >> >> OpenBook 8.  Apparently, it defaults to using
> an
> >> OCR
> >> >> recognition language called "Omnipage with
> >> Two-way
> >> >> Voting."  I scanned an entire book, thinking
> from
> >> >> the text that was being read back to me that
> it
> >> was
> >> >> fine.  Once I started deleting headers and
> such,
> >> I
> >> >> came to a realization: Omnipage with two-way
> >> voting
> >> >> (whatever the hell that means) recognizes
> >> characters
> >> >> quite well ... but paragraph formatting is
> almost
> >> >> nonexistent!  I mean, hardly any paragraph
> breaks
> >> at
> >> >> all!
> >> >>
> >> >> Since the text is so clean, I reeeeeeeally
> don't
> >> >> want to have to rescan it with Finereader
> which
> >> I'm
> >> >> sure would keep the paragraph breaks.  I
> already
> >> >> scanned another book using Finereader with
> >> Openbook
> >> >> 8, but I guess somewhere my settings got
> switched
> >> >> back to default.
> >> >>
> >> >> If I submit this book, will it be rejected due
> to
> >> >> lack of paragraph breaks?  <Sigh>  I am a bit
> at
> >> a
> >> >> loss.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
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***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS 
AVAILABLE AT  
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm

A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT 
http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html

Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html


      
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