I can't say that it is that important to me. When I first started scanning I was looking around for something to scan and a neighbor came up with some very old science fiction mass market paperbacks from a storage room and they had been there for years. My first attempts got only garble for me. I have now become a bit better at scanning old mass market paperbacks, but they still are not as easy as newer trade books. I also had to give up on at least a couple. As for this one, the last two pages scanned okay the last time I worked on it yesterday, so I will stick with it a while before I give up. If the frustration grows too much I will just move on to something else.
_ _ _"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 2:09 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Missing Periods
Try a different copy or edition. Try libraries or one of the used book places if it's an important book for you personally. I have a book just like that and it took 2 different editions, paper and hardback, before I got the problem solved. One has dropped periods and one has textual problems. I compare editions whenever there's a problem. I read the first 15 pages and fixed periods and commas, too. I then did the same pages over with someone else reading along and we still found that we could miss punctuation marks. That's why I eventually decided to go with the book with textual issues and compare with the dropped periods copy for any words that weren't obvious. Btw, a comparison showed about 6000 commas and periods each with 100 of each missing. It's not that that's a lot, it's that they're so overlookable.Now, a "the" that's a "die" sticks out and yells at you. Good luck.----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:40 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Missing PeriodsTo follow up on my earlier post, I have now scanned pages four and five. Page four turned out okay, but page five was missing it's periods. I didn't try rescanning this time. I just went through it inserting the periods. Thank goodness some of the periods were there this time, but most of them were not. If I have to go through this for the entire book this is going to be a slow and tedious job. Does anyone know of a find and replace that will fix this using Open Book as the editing software? Better yet, does anyone know of a way to prevent it in the first place?_ _ _"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. DebsThe Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html 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.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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