[bksvol-discuss] Re: Total books added this year
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:55:43 -0800 (PST)
I've never kept track, either. Like Susan, I read the book carefully,except for
indices and bibliographies. Then I do a final spell-check and pagination
check; and I describe illustrations. It depends on the length of the book and
what complications there might be. I can speak in terms of months rather than
hours. Sometimes and I don't know why, though I save my work, when I next go to
the file to open it and continue, and do a spell-check to get to where I left
off, it appears as if missed correcting some pages. The last book I did I
redid the pagination and scanned each page as I did to catch anything missed.
The book I'm working on I'm not going to do that; It appears I just get to a
different page further on in the book. I suppose if one checked when I first
downloaded the book and then when I uploaded it one could tell how many
months/years it took me. Only a couple of times I thought I lost the whole
thing and re-downloaded the rtf and
started again
Cindy
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> From: Larry Lumpkin <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 4:31 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Total books added this year
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>My wife and I have been processing books for bookshare for a number of years
>now. I can tell you that a 400-page book takes me probably 6 or 8 hours to
>set up and scan. She may spend several weeks proofing it. She reads the book
>with a Braille display. She reads every word on every page anhd I often apply
>several OCR tools that I have to re-scan bad pages.
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>From:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grace Pires
>Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 6:11 PM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Total books added this year
>
>Hi Alisa:
>
>Welcome to bookshare.
>I have been out of the loop for several months due to other commitments,
>however, I hope to get back scanning and finishing putting the dragonlance
>series.
>
>As how many hours it takes to bring a book to the collection, well it depends
>on the book and how much work you want to put into it.
>I never kept track. It takes several hour just to scan. I have found that it
>can take just as long to proof.
>Grace Pires
>
>
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>From:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alisa Moore
>Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:42 AM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Total books added this year
>
>Hi all. In response to Roger’s question, there were 7,124 books contributed
>by publishers in 2011, and 397 books added by Bookshare, in addition to the
>books submitted by you, our volunteers.
>
>Yours a huge accomplishment, given that you are scanning books in one page at
>a time (often using older equipment), and you are adding books to the
>collection, that otherwise would never be there…I’d love to know how many
>volunteer hours nearly 1,900 books add up to?!
>
>What are you thoughts? How many average hours do you think each book takes to
>add by a volunteer (including scanning, proofing, editing/resubmitting
>titles)?
>
>Alisa K. Moore
>Volunteer Program Manager
>Benetech
>www.bookshare.org
>650-352-0087
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