[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 19:22:44 -0700
Thanks, I have never actually pressed download, so I have not seen who
is submitting the books.
I plan to do editing, since I would prefer the copies to be as good as
we can make them. I remember last summer reading Taylor Caldwell's
Testimony of Two Men! A huge book, but one thing I noticed in reading
it was that the word "the" almost always was "die" on braille. It did
not detract from the story, except for the first couple of times I saw
it, because I could not figure out how it made that error. Now that I
have done some scanning I know how it could happen just like I know how
come there were duplicate pages in several places.
Rose Combs
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
Rose
Choose a book that likely won't require much on your end for starters.
This is the way to become comfortable with the process.
You can find such books by examining comments the submitters may include
with their submissions or sticking with submitters that generally do
extensive clean-up and prevalidating prior to submitting.
Kid books may also prove good starter books as they tend to be shorter.
Personally, I use K1000 for my validating work as it has all of the
needed
tools including rank spelling which can give you a good sense of the
quality of the submission.
Remember, the validation guidelines are rather basic despite what some
of
us may choose to do on our own.
These include making certain that the book isn't already on BookShare,
that it is a scanned book and not an etext taken from another source,
that title, author and copyright info is supplied, and that the book is
complete in its text.
Also it must have page breaks.
It must also be readable enough fitting at least the fair category.
If it makes that grade, what you choose to do in addition is up to you.
You, however, can accept the book without further editing on your part;
and editing of a book isn't a validation requirement.
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