[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning and Whom the Gods
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:31:35 -0800 (PST)
O.K. If someone else is scanning it, I'll cancel my
request for the book.
G.Cindy
--- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's coming out Very badly and I think someone else
> has taken that project.
> I hope my copy is just substandard. I quit on it
> 200 pages in when I
> realized that inner margin problems effected one
> quarter of the pages.
> Sorry.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:02 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning and Whom the
> Gods
>
>
> > Gary,
> >
> > Is "Whom the Gods Would Destroy" what you're
> switching
> > from? Neither Judy nor I scan--we just validate.
> I'm
> > willing to validate what you scan if you submit it
> and
> > put Hold for Cindy on it. It will take a while,
> > though, since Judy isn't in any hurry and I have a
> few
> > other things to do first. I will do it before the
> huge
> > volumes I have downloaded, though.
> >
> > However, if someone else wants to do a fresh scan
> of
> > it, please post here so Gary and I both know.
> >
> > G.Cindy
> >
> > --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm switching to Rescuing Sprite, Marc Levin, and
> > Empire, Orson Scott Card.
> > If someone's doing them, let me know.
> >
> >> You might get a better put together copy than I
> did.
> >> It would have scanned
> >> great except for those 20 footnotes and the inner
> >> margins. I was getting
> >> accuracy numbers which the footnotes threw Way
> off,
> >> but, even with the
> >> margins were 99.3 or so. The good pages were
> coming
> >> in at 99.7 and up.
> >> There was no way to get the stuff in the margin
> so
> >> that the first character
> >> on some pages on lots of lines wouldn't come out.
> I
> >> found one paperback
> >> from Canada for $3 and ordered it just to read
> the
> >> book. My copy won't be
> >> usable here. Looks like a great book.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 8:42 PM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Whom The Gods
> >>
> >>
> >> > I'd be happy to do it, if you don't want to,
> Judy,
> >> but
> >> > it will take a while because I still have 2
> books
> >> that
> >> > must be done first--and others that can
> probably
> >> wait
> >> > if you're in a hurry for the book.
> >> >
> >> > Let me know what you want to do.
> >> >
> >> > G.Cindy
> >> >
> >> > --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> This one's going to take some work. There are
> >> about
> >> >> 20 footnotes at the
> >> >> bottoms of pages which are printed in a
> >> >> handwritten-like script. It can
> >> >> drop a 99.5 page to 85, and is completely
> >> gibberish.
> >> >> I've tried it with
> >> >> optimizing and grayscale. I could try 400
> >> >> resolution and will now that I've
> >> >> thought of it. Now I remember why we're
> always
> >> >> cautioned never to
> >> >> volunteer.
> >> >> <sigh>
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