[bksvol-discuss] Re: The validation process I use.
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:31:04 -0800
Hi Bob,
There are three things that I do that are not on your list.
1. Protect chapter headings from being stripped by the infamous
stripper by inserting the number of the page you are on above the
chapter title. Don't worry if the page number appears at the bottom
of the page as well. The stripper will take the one I have inserted,
and leave the chapter heading alone. If nothing is written above the
chapter heading, your chapter headings will likely be stripped
completely from the book by the Bookshare stripper.
2. Protect page numbers while you are in microsoft word during your
last pass. In the find and replace dialogue, in the first box type
^m (if your screen reader didn't read that accurately, that is type
karat m with no space between the characters). In the replace box
type ^p^m^p (In english this is type karat p karat m karat p). This
will insert a blank line between your page break and your page
number. It is also a good idea to have a blank line between the page
number and the first or last line of text, depending upon whether
your page numbers fall at the top or bottom of pages.
3. Remove all headers from the book. Usually this is just the
recurring name of the author and title of the book at the tops of
facing pages. Be sure not to remove page numbers if they also occur
at the top of pages.
Just my little aditions.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 12:43 PM 12/21/2007, you wrote:
Here is a general list of the things I do when validating a book, in
hopes that others who vary from this method can tell us what they do and why.
1. Download the zipped book from step 1 into a temp directory. I use
a temp directory just because it's a place to hold the original copy
of the book in case I have to start all over.
2. Open the zipped file with windows explorer, and copy and paste
the book to a directory I have in k1000 called in progress.
3. Open the book that is in in progress with ms word.
4. Check for page images and, if found, change them to page breaks.
5. Run a spell check to check for glaring errors. I don't worry here
about every error, just glaring ones that can easily be fixed, or
ones that may point to potential problems to look for later in the process.
6. Save the book in .rtf format.
7. Open the book in k1000 and save it as a .kes file. This will be
my working file from here on out. I have version 10 something of
k1000, and understand that if I had v11, this conversion wouldn't be
necessary. However, it is necessary for me.
8. If there are page numbers in the book, I find the real page 1 and
set it appropriately in the navigation menu. Check the last page to
see if the last page matches Kurzweil's page number. If so, I let
out a cheer. If not, I fix a drink, as this may indicate missing
pages, or pages that have been scanned twice, and I may need a drink.
9. I now perform my first rank spelling, making sure that
capitalized words are not checked. If the initial rank is less than
95% I'm either going to have difficulties or there are a lot of
words that are unique to the book.
When I encounter a suspicious word, I use read context to determine
whether the use seems valid or not. If so, I ignore the problem
throughout the text. If not, I hit "edit" and look/fix each
occurrence of the problem.
10. I save the .kes book. and sign out as I can't mentally handle
more than this in one sitting.
11. I bring up the .kes book again, and, if necessary, repeat step 9
until I'm satisfied.
12. Now it's time to read the book. Generally, this is the fun part.
I read the book listening for glaring errors such as missing words
that a rank spelling will not catch.
13. One final rank spelling to see if the score is greater than 98%.
This is an arbitrary score I've selected--others may use another
percentage of acceptable errors.
14. Save the book as an .rtf file in the "in progress" folder. You
should already have the original .rtf file which you now write over
with your corrected book.
15. Once more open the book in word to make sure k1000 didn't mess
things up in the conversion. Also you can make any change to the
book, like the inclusion of a blank space, then correct that change,
and save the book again. This is to prevent the bookshare validation
system from throwing you an unknown error.
16. Copy down the title, author, isbn, copyright information, and
create short and long synopses In a temporary .txt file for
reference in the next step. Too many times I'll find an item that
has been overlooked by the submitter, and had to scurry around
finding the information.
17. It's off to the bookshare site and the step2 page, where I
upload the file.
18. Fix a celebratory drink.
I hope other validators will tell me things they do differently, and
new validators may find this a helpful tool for processing a book.
Thanks.
Bob
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the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead
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