Ann, you don't need to remove soft page breaks. They won't show up in the rtf file you send up to Bookshare. Don't make extra work for yourself. Those are just artifacts of MS Word, and will not mess up the page numbering for the Bookshare file, which takes into account only hard page breaks.
Somebody can correct me if I am wrong about this, but I am pretty certain that that is how things work.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:47 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: please more submits so I can proof read
Hi all,Hmmm, I think rather than naming names, the better idea would be to ask Pavi if she could please speak with these particular volunteers and impress upon them that proofing is *not* a twenty-minute job. If it were, I would have submitted the book I'm doing now a week ago. As it is, this book requires removal of headers, replacement of page numbers at the top of the pages, and may require a sighted volunteer to look at the pages. I have also discovered that this book, even though I have changed the paper size to Legal, has a huge number of soft page breaks which have to be removed. This is a tedious process. If she could impress upon them that these things need to be done to these books, they will become better proofreaders. The most important thing is to reiterate that the *only* way to be sure that a book you are proofing is as free from errors as possible is to read it, yes, read every page, every word. That, IMO is the best way to get the best quality for Bookshare.Now, I understand that people have selfish reasons for volunteering, namely racking up credit against their membership fee. However, here's a nice little statistic for you. There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, except for leap Year. You have to contribute twenty books in order to pay for your membership. So, if you divide three hundred and sixty-five by twenty, you get eighteen and a bit. That's eighteen days, folks, eighteen days per book. that is almost three weeks, folks. There is absolutely no, good, reason, for proofing a book in twenty minutes, none at all. Some children's books may take a day. Some reference books may take six weeks. Most books should take two to three days at least! I repeat, there is absolutely no reason for twenty-minute proofing! You've got lots of time, lots of it, if you space out your books and you're careful about what you're doing. So, I'd recommend that instead of naming names, Pavi be asked to speak to these fol ks and tell them how it is. Tell them we're absolutely willing to help them when they need it and to work with them to improve their work. We don't want to lose them. All we want is for them to improve what they are doing so that everyone benefits, not just the proofer or scanner who gets the $2.50. You're doing this so that others can read these books. If they can't read the books, then all your work is for nothing.Ann P. -- AAnn K. Parsons Portal Tutoring Email: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web Site: http://www.portaltutoring.info blog: http://www.samobile.net/users/akp Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT 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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