[bksvol-discuss] Re: Tip for proofreading
- From: "shannon" <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:44:31 -0600
Chancey,
Thanks for that tip.
I think that could come in useful.
I usually have no luck searching for information on the web. I'll have to
try this one out.
Shannon
> --- "Chancey S. Fleet" <csflee@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to share a minor discovery I made
> > tonight, that's helpful if you're print-disabled or
> > just don't have the hard copy book you're trying to
> > validate.
> >
> > As you may know, Google just doubled its page
> > index, bringing in material from a bunch of new file
> > types. This makes it increasingly likely that if
> > you Google a line from a book you're working with,
> > in quotations, you'll get back either an excerpt
> > from the book or the whole thing. Out of five books
> > I tried, I got two incidences of no luck, two full
> > books online, and one excerpt with the text
> > surrounding the line I Googled. the online text
> > enabled me to find out the chapter numbers and
> > titles for a book that had garbled chapter headings
> > but was otherwise of excellent quality. I don't
> > know if these online copies are legal so I won't
> > mention the books by name, and please, please use
> > this as a proofreading tool rather than a way to
> > yoink texts that you didn't really scan (I'm sure
> > these documents have fingerprints of some kind, and
> > you can't ever be 100% sure that the online text is
> > complete). But if you're lucky enough to discover
> > an online paralel to the book you're scanning or
> > validating, it can definitely take some of the
> > guesswork and headache out of proofing.
> >
> > Best,
> > Chancey Fleet
>
>
>
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