[bksvol-discuss] Re: This is terrible!
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:42:00 -0700
I forgot to copy you when I posted the above note
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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
> > wrote:
>
>> #
>> 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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