[bksvol-discuss] Re: Release or return
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:27:01 -0600
I tend to agree with you Evan. <I like the phrase "salvage business" *grin>.
If this were a novel which someone might read for pleasure I think I might be
willing to fight for its inclushion in the collection. But, this is obviously a
book that someone might use as a reference manual. But, it would be impossible
to footnote the thing as a footnote needs to include the exact location of the
cited material, and that would be impossible with this book.
----- Original Message -----
From: EVAN REESE
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Release or return
Well, I agree with Guido that we are not in the salvage business. The amount
of time that it would probably require to fix up the book may well be more than
it would take to scan it again.
It's too bad if the text quality is good, but the pagination needs to be 90
percent accurate, if I recall the manual correctly. So it probably won't, and
shouldn't, get past Carrie unless it gets that overhaul that you are, rightly,
unwilling to do.
I think you should reject it, and perhaps put in the comments that the text
quality is good, but that the pagination is messed up beyond acceptable quality
and would take longer to fix up than to rescan.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob
To: bookshare volunteer discussion
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 4:17 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Release or return
Hello.
I am currently proof reading The Heart & Soul of Change What Works in
Therapy. It is edited by Mark A. Hubble, Barry L. Duncan and Scott D. Miller.
Submitted by Alliant International University.
I have only begun to work with this book, but the pagination seems to be
all messed up.
Apa books has it at 462 pages. Kurzweil has it at 445 pages including
index and all front matter, and Bookshare has it at 406 pages.
None of the chapters begin where the table of contents say they begin.
Looking at the page breaks in Microsoft word, some appear at the top of the
page, but most seem to start somewhere in the middle of the page. I initially
thought maybe the scanner was set to scan two pages per scan and only one page
was scanned. However, the numbers are not doubled. IN short, the pagination
appears to be rather haphazard.
I am tempted to reject the book, but, the scan appears to be ok (no major
garbled text etc.). Without a major overhaul of the book (which I am not going
to do) I don't think I could get it passed the bad old bookshare administrators
<just kidding Carrie).
Can anyone think of anything I can do to salvage this book?
Bob
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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