Since no one eelse has answered your question thus far, you really can't be positive without a hard copy of the book. However, there are so many common scanning errors that one soon has a pretty good idea what is a scano and what is a typographical error. As a matter of fact, however, I have found that usual misprints in a book are either the wrong word or a missing word. I hope that helps a little. Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Pranghofer" <maureensmusic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi How can you tell thedifference between a type-o and a scanning error when you are proofreading? If one letter is typed wrong in a word how do you know which it is? By checking the hard copy? Maureen----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:26 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Quotation marksHi Kim! Out of ignorance that there was such a thing as British punctuation, I changed all of the single quotes to double ones when I proofread a while back as we are used to here, and I didn't get in trouble, but I probablywon't do it again, now that I know better. You'd better e-mail Carrie andask her for sure about the policy on that, since the braille displays don't like the single quotes, since I don't know about policy on that, just that we are not to change text, including typos, which I find when reading over my scans. I groan when I find a typo, because I'd love to change it, but know it would be tampering with the published work, so Ileave them and put a note in with my submission saying that page so-and-sohas such-and-such a typo. Debby At 08:01 AM 5/23/2010, Kim Friedman wroteHi, folks, I just finished proofreading a book for Deborah Murray called A Secret and Unlawful Killing by Cora Harrison. It was written and publishedin Great Britain and has there particular type of quotation marks which I'm told don't translate as quotes in Braille. My initial desire was to replace those quotes with those that looked good in Braille. I didn't dothis because the submitter informed me that those quotes should remain how they looked in the printed text. I wrote her and have subsequently writtento Carrie Karnos to get bookshare's policy on this. I've checked in the book for approval and hope it will be added to the collection. I would be interested in your thoughts on this. I recognize that it is my job as proofreader to remove scanos if any, make sure the format is okay, all pagination and text present and accounted for and to muck about with the text as little as possible if the submitter did a great job, otherwise Icould strip headers, add Roman numerals if needed for the prefatory pages,etc. Do write me back and tell me what you think given your knowledge and experience. Thanks and best regards, Kim Friedman. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5138 (20100522) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. <http://www.eset.com>http://www.eset.com-- mailto:<the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.--Ecclesiastes 6:9 NLT 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. __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5142 (20100524) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5142 (20100524) __________The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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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