[bksvol-discuss] Re: Sighted Help with Several Books
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:50:59 -0700
oh.o.k. When you've finished with all that, just let me know what you need
from me. No hurry, except I have the books only for 3 weeks, but then, as
long as no one has put a hold on any of them, I can renew for another 3
weeks.
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Sorry. I go through and check for page numbers, remove headers, fixed end
> of page hyphens...stuff like that. **Smile******
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> *From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Cindy Rosenthal
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 08, 2013 6:09 PM
> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sighted Help with Several Books****
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> I don't understand. They don't have to be cleaned up. smile. I thought
> that's what I'm supposed to help you do.
> Cindy****
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> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi.****
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> Sounds good. I won't be able to have the first of these books cleaned up
> until Tuesday.****
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> Thanks again for helping.****
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> Christina****
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> *From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Cindy Rosenthal
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 08, 2013 3:30 AM
> *To:* Christina
> *Cc:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx****
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> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sighted Help with Several Books****
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> I've requested Distant Thunders, Iron Gray Sea and Firestorm from my
> library. I'll let you know when I've picked them up and you can then let
> me know specifically what you need. You can send me the first chapters
> that are messed up, either as Word or rtf attachments (I'll change them to
> word, correct them, and send them back to you as rtf if you want, so you
> can add them to what you have) Or you can copy them and paste them into the
> message part of an email letter, and then I'll make the corrections and
> return the email. I think that probably would be the easiest way to do it.
> Cindy****
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> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:****
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> Hi.****
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> If you could get Distant Thunders, Iron Gray Sea, and Firestorm from your
> library, that'd be great. What I've been doing with the other volunteer
> who's helping me with these is scanning the books and cleaning them up the
> best I can. I put QQQ at all of the places where the text is jumbled and I
> sent her the files, before I submitted them to Bookshare, and she corrected
> those spots. Most of these spots are in the beginnings of the chapters.
> However, there's a lot of slang and weirdly-written words that I'm not
> always sure about so I mark those too. I can also figure out some of the
> jumbled bits at the beginnings of the chapters. I can't say ahead of time
> how much work a book will be but I'm hoping no more than an hour per book.
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> If you're still ok with this, please let me know. If not, I completely
> understand.****
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> Have a great weekend.****
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> Christina****
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> *From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Cindy Rosenthal
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:24 PM
> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sighted Help with Several Books****
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> My library has Into the Storm, Distant Thunders and Rising Tides as well
> as some other books by him.
> Shall I request them or will you, or who wants to?
> and once we get the books, what's wanted from them; just info about the
> first letter of each chapter?****
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> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:****
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> This is very odd. My library has all seven and another's has six of the
> seven.****
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> Is this only for certain libraries?****
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> *From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Cindy Rosenthal
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 30, 2013 6:57 PM
> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sighted Help with Several Books****
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> Pamela, thanks for checking World Cat. Now I don't have to check my
> libraries an d get discouraging results.Isn't World Cat wonderful? I
> was delighted when learned about it from a librarian who assured me it was
> available to the public. I was less delighted when I did a search for a
> particular book and found it was only available from a library in England,
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> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Pamela Hoffard <crosssttch@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Christina,****
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> According to Worldcat, there are no copies available at libraries for the
> first three that you mentioned. Boo! I have access to two: Firestorm and
> Iron Grey sea only.****
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> Amazon might give me peeks if you want to send a phrase on the page. It
> probably won't give us all of the pages you need though.****
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> Let me know if I can help in any way!****
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> Pam Hoffard****
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> *From:* Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:03 AM
> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Sighted Help with Several Books****
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> Hello. I am currently scanning the Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson.
> The first letter of each chapter is huge; a sighted friend said it takes up
> about half the page and runs through about the first six lines of text.
> She's helped me with some weird formatting issues in other books recently
> so
> I don't want to ask her to assist me with this series as well.
> Is there anyone that could look up these books on Google or Amazon Peek? I
> don't have any specific page numbers yet but I will in a couple hours. The
> only caviat is that I'm hoping to get answers fairly quickly. These are
> all
> library books and I can only keep them for a few weeks, including renewals.
> I'm willing to wait a few days for answers but I can't do much longer than
> that.
> So far, this series is seven books long. I'd need help with the first
> paragraph or so of each chapter though I hope I can figure out most of this
> on my own. I'm basically looking for a go-to person to help with the
> difficult bits.
> Some of the titles include: Into the Storm, Distant Thunders, and Rising
> Tides.
> Thank you.
> Christina
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