[bksvol-discuss] Re: Quick processing of my book
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:01:09 -0700 (PDT)
I'm getting confused again, after all this talk about
the necessit y of headings. (Sorry, Gerald -- I
thought after your help I understood and and was doing
what I should to preserve chapter titles and page
numbers).Should I, henceforth, *not* delete headers if
they're present, even when the headers are the book
title and/or author's name? Or is it only whenthe
headers is a chapter title tht I should leave it in?
(I don't think I've ever seen any of those)
Should I move the page number below the header or
leave it on the same line so the header won't be
stripped--and drop both down a line space as Pratik
and Gerald suggested quite some time ago? I won' put
back in those that have already been taken out,
though, of the books I'm working on. I want to know
for the future.
Cindy
--- Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim
>
> I have no doubt that the stripper properly prepares
> the book for use and
> navigation with the Daisy player as it was designed
> to.
> Similarily, the .brf copy follows standards for that
> medium.
> The issue, it would appear, is that a whole bunch of
> us read BookShare
> books on hybrid equipment or programs which may or
> may not give
> satisfactory results regardless of modifications
> made to the stripper.
> What is particularly disappointing with Charlene's
> book is that she took
> great pains in preserving headers which, using
> programs such as K1000,
> could easily be used to find categories within the
> book.
>
> What I would suggest as a solution to this dilemma
> is twofold:
>
> (1) create a 3rd category of downloadable book in
> addition to .brf and
> .daisy, calling it something like raw.
> This would be the book in a form prior to stripping
> and massaging.
>
> (2) As the stripper is essential to the preparation
> of books for Daisy
> players, leave suggestions for changes to it solely
> to those who actually
> use Daisy players.
>
> As an experiment for testing the feasibility of (1)
> outlined above, would
> it be possible to create a test sampling of titles
> in raw form so those of
> us who would prefer unstripped books could test
> that idea out with some
> actual BookShare material.
>
> I believe that a lot of us didn't fully understand
> what the stripper does
> because we were unfamiliar in how it was involved
> withDaisy production.
> So abolishing the stripper or not using it is hardly
> a practical solution
> as doing that would create its own set of headaches.
> Perhaps if a third type of book, the raw book, were
> a downloadable option,
> this might resolve many of the complaints.
>
> If this solution proved satisfactory, it might be
> the cheapest one for
> Benetech as it would require the least programmer
> time.
> From your end, it might also prove useful to survey
> veteran (users with
> the service for over 6 months) to find out what
> equippment they use for
> reading BookShare users.
> I, when I began with the service from almost day
> one, initially used the
> supplied Daisy player.
> Over time, I moved away from them to what I use now
> namely K1000 and my
> Book Port.
> I, as a matter of fact, don't even have a Daisy
> player on my pc system.
>
> As noted above, if you could create a page giving us
> a handful of books in
> their raw unstripped unprepared form, it would be an
> inexpensive test to
> see if "we can live without the stripper".
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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