[bksvol-discuss] Re: This is terrible!
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:02:14 -0700
Em, yes, I guess that's another possibility; that is so frustrating. Tim
(and Em), were your books current ones or old ones? If the former,, maybe
we volunteers should only scan and proof books published before ....? If
the latter, I don't know. Are publishers clearing back inventory? At least,
As someone said, one gets to read the book without costing credits, but
then neither does one gain credits, and it's time and effort wasted. I
remember how angry (not too strong a word) I got years ago when a book I'd
spent a lot of time carefully proofing was added by the publisher (this was
when they just began giving books to bookshare; in later years I had some
long and tedious books I asked the liaison(sorry, I forgoet her name) to
request from the publisher and I have one now in my pile maybe I'll ask her
to request it; it's not a commercial publisher, though. Do
universitypresses donate books? ; I don't think the request was granted
(wrong publisher, I guess. On second thought,maybe I won't ask. From
comments from you readers, and my own suspicion, I think we do a better
job, at least making books navigable, and maybe even being error-free.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Em Rose <uvabookworm27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy, I suspect what happened in Tim's case is the same as what happened
> to me on one of the recent books I worked on. Before I started, I checked
> the collection and the book wasn't there. However, sometime between then
> and when I submitted my copy, the book was submitted by the publisher.
>
> Roger, unfortunately I don't know how to fix your issue. Gary's
> suggestion will certainly solve the problem for breaks between dialogue,
> but I think the rest of the breaks will need to be added by hand. Perhaps
> a sighted proofer with a copy of the book would be willing to take on this
> project?
>
> Em
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I'd like an explanation as to how this could happen. If you were still
>> proofing the book and hadn't checked it in it in how did bookshare add
>> it to the collection? Did you pehaps hit "check in" instead of "renew"?
>> Maybe the options, Check in, Renew and Release should be spread further
>> apart so that mistakes such as that I suggest but also hitting release
>> instead of renew won't occur (that last mistake could result in someone
>> else taking the book someone is still working on; can this be done,
>> madeleine?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Tim Syfert
>> <goodproofing2010@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> At least, Roger, you can still get your book submitted. I proofed a book
>>> that long and couldn't submit it because it was already in the collection!
>>> And the Bookshare staff put it there while I was doing my proofing!! So I
>>> certainly know how you feel with all that work for nothing. It was a big
>>> letdown for me (probably for the scanner too), but at least I got to read a
>>> good book. How many times has this happened to you? Keep going, you'll
>>> still be helping others.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>>> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> *Sent:* Friday, October 25, 2013 8:33 PM
>>> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] This is terrible!
>>>
>>> #
>>> This is the kind of problem that makes me feel a bit sick and tempts me
>>> to stop volunteering. I am very careful with my submissions. I scan them
>>> two pages at a time and if the margins are too tight I will scan them
>>> one page at a time. Before I go on to the next two pages I read over the
>>> pages I have just scanned correcting any scannos or other problems I
>>> come across and then I run a spell check on the same two pages. I do
>>> leave a lot to the proofreader because I do not have the proper software
>>> to do some of the proofreading chores, but I am fairly confident that
>>> when the proofreader gets my submission it will be a pretty easy
>>> proofing job. This means that I put a lot of work into my submissions
>>> and I am rather slow to get them to the checkout list. Well, I just got
>>> a notification that one of my submissions with well over 300 carefully
>>> scanned pages cannot be added to the collection because so many
>>> paragraph breaks are missing, especially in dialog and that it must be
>>> rescanned. That was one thing that I did not notice and did not check
>>> before submitting. I just looked at my copies of other scans and I have
>>> a 396 page submission currently being proofread and another 400 page
>>> book that I am close to finishing that may have the same problem. I am
>>> not certain at all that I have the will to start all over on these
>>> books. I am using Open Book 9 on a Windows 7 computer and I do not have
>>> Word except for Word starter. Does anyone know if there is a good way to
>>> fix this problem short of starting all over and does anyone know how to
>>> prevent it in the future. Honestly, putting all that work in only to be
>>> told that it has to be done all over again kind of makes a person want
>>> to just give up.
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