lol G.Cndy <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think it is funny that this book has no paragraph > changes. You would > have thought they would be automatic. > Cindy Lou Ray > > Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Troup" <yakkoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:01 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Please don't kill me > > > 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. > >> > > > > > > ***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 > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email > to > > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the > subject line. To get a > > list > > of available commands, put the word 'help' by > itself in the subject > > line. > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a > list of available commands, put the word 'help' by > itself in the > subject line. > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > ***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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.