You use Google books to proof by doing a search for a phrase near the word or phrase that you cannot figure out. It will often return the phrase you are looking for with the questionable word spelled correctly. It is not practical to download an entire Google book for proofreading purposes.
On 6/4/2012 11:01 PM, Dasha Radford wrote:
I tried to use with my screen reader. I don't know what the deal is but it doesn't like Google books. in fact it won't even read the books after they're down loaded in Google's reader. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:44 PM, "Mayrie ReNae"<mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi Roger, I agree, books.google.com would be better I think. But it's possible that everyone doesn't know about it as a source for helping to clarify unclear text. Thanks for bringing up books.google.com Now folks who might want to check it out can! Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 7:35 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about MP3 audio I think I understand what is being talked about now, but it doesn't seem like something that would be very efficient. How, for example, could you get the spelling of a word from an audio book? I think Google books is a better option. On 6/4/2012 10:30 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:Hi Roger, If, for example, NLS has a copy of a book recorded, or someone has purchased an audiobook from audible.com, but they were proofreading that same book to add to the Bookshare collection, they could listen to the mp3 to hear what missing words in a scan should be. It'd be, in my opinion, very tedious to find particular text in an audiobook to compare, but sometimes, you've gotta do what you gotta do to get the job done. It's the audible option for a blind person, where a sighted proofreader could checkout a copy of a print book from their library to compare the scanned text and fix scanning errors.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.
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