We can turn off punctuation and we don't hear the hyphens, however, if they are there reading with speech is a bit choppy. I am reading this book, but I may not renew it, as a matter of fact, I thought I remembered seeing it as one that is waiting admin approval, so how I got it is a mystery to me, unless they remain available regardless. Later, once I figure out exactly what I am doing, I will be glad to take the medical stuff, it is an interest of mine but I work with the terminology all day long, would recognize errors and have a medical spell checker installed in Word. I'd prefer to read mysteries and romances, but, I have an area of more or less expertise that could also be useful. Any more Robin Cook, Michael Palmer and others in the same vein could come my way, no problem. I am also a historical fiction reader, but not ready to tackle an epic at this moment. Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:56 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books If the hyphens are at the end of the line and the word shold not be hyphentaed, you should remove the hyphen and close up the word. Otherwise, you should leave them in. I think I read here that people who listen can turn off punctuation, though I don't know if that includes hyphens. The book I'm validating now and am almost finished with is originally written in 1920, though this is a newer edition. However, the published changed nothing. Therefore, a lot of words that we don't hyphenate any more, like tonight and upstairs, are hyphenated -- to-night, up-stairs. I have left them that way and will put a note about it in the long synopsis so readers can maybe remove them if they want for their reading pleasure. If I'm wrong to leave them and should eliminate them, Gustavo or Peter, please let me know. Cindy -- Rose Combs <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah, I hate house work. > > Question, I am validating a larger project than I'd > planned, Physical > Examination for Health Assessment. All the > copyright info is most > definitely present. > > I converted this doc file to RTF immediately. > > My question is this, there are a lot of hyphenated > words, and the > hyphens appear to be properly placed, my guess they > were done by the > publisher, or else the submitter (no name shown) > did a good job, I > should leave these alone? It would read better > aloud without them, but, > this is about a 900 page document, I am not really > inclined to remove > them all. > > Any opinions? This book had a fair rating, although > in the first few > pages, I have not found anything other than those > hyphens that could be > questionable. > > > Rose Combs > rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Cindy > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:03 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books > > > - > > It is the equivalent of whether my house is clean > > enough for me and my > > wife or for company. > > > Mike, > > That is an excellent analogy. I laughed, thinking of > my house. I spend much more time cleaning up books > for > bookshare than I do on my house. smiling > embarrassedly. > > Cindy > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football > > http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com > > > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail