Roger. DO NOT GIVE UP. t
The proofer, should have caught the missing paragraph breaks and put
them in for you I surmise it wasn't one of us who actually read the
text); or maybe the person did a global replace of paragraph breaks at
the ends of sentences wasn't careful enough and highlighted the whole
paragraph, thus eliminating the breaks at the end of the paragraphs.
If you put the book on the checkout list with a hold for me, I'll
proof it again unless the original proofer wants to do it; he she
will get the same notice you did Let me know what's going to happen.
Be aware, though, that it will take me a while to get to it. I have 4
- 5 books to do first
Cindy
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Roger Loran Bailey
<rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <mailto:rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
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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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