[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted BSO: The Rise of Endymion
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:52:23 -0400
That all sounds good except for three things:
Firstly, I wonder if the rescanners--in this case outsourcers?--would have
noticed the equations I mentioned in my post, and what would they have done
with them? And would the poetry have been formatted correctly or not?
Secondly, I wanted to read the book anyway, and I would have had no idea as to
when Bookshare would have gotten to it.
Thirdly, I know what quality I can produce by doing my own scanning and then
reading the book in its entirety, checking anything questionable with my
Optacon--which means that I don't have to guess what a scannoe is supposed to
be. So I can be certain that the book was really read through and completely
corrected--except for misprints such as the inconsistent spelling of names that
I mentioned, which I had to leave in of course.
In several cases that I have noticed, it was evident that the outsourcers did
not read through their scans. So, unless they've changed their modus operandi,
or unless Bookshare made sure to give the book to someone who would actually
read through it, I am highly confident that my BSO is at least as good,
probably better, than theirs would have been.
Evan
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I am catching up on my email after having been out last night and a little
while before I got to this one I came across one notifying me of the result of
a quality report I made some time ago. There were some really minor errors in
the book, but they were still errors and presumably Bookshare wants the most
perfect copy possible, so I made a quality report about them. Well, I have just
been informed that the entire book has been rescanned and replaced. This makes
me think that it is not worth bothering to scan a BSO anymore. That is one of
the points I made at an earlier time when I was asking if perhaps volunteers
are gradually becoming obsolete.
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[bksvol-discuss] Submitted BSO: The Rise of Endymion
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Hello Folks,
I've submitted a BSO of The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons. This replaces a
copy rated only Good. It's not the worst book I've seen, but it needs redone.
I've read through every word and done a complete spell check. All page breaks
are present as well as all page numbers. All chapter headings have been bolded
and enlarged. If it gets Jiffy proofed, hopefully no major errors will show
up to plague future readers. This is the sequel to Endymion, so if you haven't
read that one, you may want to before starting this one. It's not a
necessity, but it might be helpful.
Below I've copied the comments I placed in the Comments section of the
submission form.
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Please uncheck the Adult rating. This book does not deserve that.
I have rewritten the equations on pages 564 and 565 for clarity and because
some of the symbols will not translate correctly in braille if left as they
are. They needed to be rewritten as well because they did not scan as they
were printed. Also, speech readers will be able to hear them more easily.
Some of the lines of poetry on page 134 have some odd symbols at their ends,
such as backslashes and forward slashes. I left those in, but I have no idea
why they are there.
Some names are spelled inconsistently.
The last four books I've submitted have all been chunksters: 630 pages, 758
pages, 713 pages, and now this one at 709 pages. That comes out to over a
million
words. This is the last one I'll be doing for a while. My next submission
will actually be under 200 pages. Feels like almost nothing in comparison.
<smile>
Happy reading.
Evan
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