[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Well of Lost Plots missing lines and footnotes
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:04:40 -0800 (PST)
Please resubmit to the step one page.
Thanks! Carrie
----- Original Message ----
From: Donna Goodin <Goodind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:45:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Well of Lost Plots missing lines and footnotes
Carrie,
I've still got the book and can check it tomorrow morning. Should I resubmit
it to the step one page, or what is the best way for me to get you a complete
copy of the book?
Thanks,
Donna
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Carrie Karnos"<ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: 2/13/08 11:09:04 AM
>To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Well of Lost Plots missing lines and
>footnotes
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>Yeah, Noel's right. I checked the page (it's page 15) on amazon.com, and
>looked at the same page in the Bookshare copy, and there's a paragraph
>missing, just as he said. I'll withdraw the book from the collection, and you
>can submit it again after the missing piece has been added. Noel, are there
>any other missing paragraphs in the book?
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>By the way, Noel, when you copied the text into the email, you managed to put
>white text against a white background, which means we sighted people can't see
>the text unless we highlight it. Luckily the printer ignores the white on
>white, so I could print out your email and see all of the text. Good trick
>there! :-)
>
>Carrie
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:26:02 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Well of Lost Plots missing lines and
>footnotes
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>It's on the top of the second page of chapter 2. In the copy on bookshare
>(from what I can tell at least( the bottom of the first page, for reference
>says
>to explain the technical possibilities of dippy egg fingers when a copy of The
>Toad dropped on the mat. The only news story was about some sort of
>drug-related gang warfare in Reading. It was part of the plot in Caversham
>Heights and reminded me that sooner or later-and quite possibly sooner-I
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>And then page two of teh chapter begins
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>"Sorry," he said sheepishly, apologizing for the misrelated grammatical
>construction almost immediately, "Wyatt is my name, not the hat's."
>"I kind of figured that," I replied.
>Wooden and worn with use, he was holding a clipboard. "Oh, bother!" he said in
>the manner of someone who had just referred to George Eliot as "he" in a room
>full of English professors. "I've done it again!"
>"Really, I don't mind," I repeated. "What can I do for you?" "You're very
>kind. As a Character Exchange Program member, I would like to ask you to get
>yourself into
>page
>The actual page excerpt should read
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>would be expected to take on the mantle of Mary as part of the Character
>Exchange Program. I had another careful read of the precis, which gave me a
>good idea of the plot chapter by chapter, but no precise dialogue or
>indication as to what I should be doing, or when. I didn't have to wonder very
>long as a knock at the door revealed an untidy man wearing a hat named Wyatt.
>"Sorry," he said sheepishly, apologizing for the misrelated grammatical
>construction almost immediately, "Wyatt is my name, not the hat's."
>"I kind of figured that," I replied.
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>Does this make sense?
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>On Feb 13, 2008 7:46 AM, Donna Goodin <goodind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Noel,
>
>That was my scan. I went through the whole book and didn't see any missing
>text. Can you tell me what pages you are talking about that have missing
>lines?
>Thanks,
>Donna
>
>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Noel Romey
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:32 AM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Well of Lost Plots missing lines and footnotes
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>Hey guys,
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>I don't know if it was caused by the stripper or not, but a couple of lines
>got deleted at the top of one of the pages in The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper
>Fforde. Oddly enough, I had just scanned the book to submit.
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>Has this type of thing happened before? Can I also resubmit my edited copy to
>replace it? I know that it would be ok to do this, but there won't be too
>many changes (I don't think), so I wanted to ask first.
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>Also, there are many footnotes in the book that are important to the flow of
>the text. Would it be helpful to move these footnotes into the text if I can?
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