[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validation questions: page numbers, chapter headings

  • From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:12:04 -0700

Hello Rick and all,

It is definitely clear to me that additional detail is needed in the 
validation section of the Volunteer Manual.  As validators, we all do things 
differently, and the amount of work we put in the process apparently varies 
as well.  When I download a book from Step 1, I do the following things 
during my validation process:

* Make all the checks mentioned in the Volunteer Manual.
* Correct as many scanning errors as possible.
* Remove garbled text that obviously comes from pictures and other non-text 
content.
* Perform minor format corrections, if time permits.
* Add page breaks as needed.

That's about the extent of my work during the validation process.  I 
generally don't perform time-intensive tasks like changing fonts and 
rearranging text.  There's just not enough time in a day for me to do all 
that; I would get nothing validated.  :-(


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJ / KJ" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:53 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validation questions: page numbers, chapter 
headings


When submitting a book do we not ask the persons scanning to go ahead and
move page numbers to the top of the page and have that blank line above and
beyond the page number itself?

The book I downloaded to validate the other day and just opened this morning
has all of the page numbers at the bottom of the page.  So I am wondering,
are you folks who validate books, are you doing this work, going through the
document, finding each page at the bottom of each and every page, and moving
it to the top?

Or am I just doing stuff I had not ought to be doing?  In other words, is
this part of your routine when validating?

Headings

Chapter titles.
If they are missing from the book, what is your way of handling it?

In this book I do not find text of some chapter titles. They are listed with
corresponding page numbers in a table of contents.  But all the chapter
titles I am not finding.  I could play detective, and insert them. But I
feel a bit uncertain about going about it this way.   Is this a fixable
thing, or what would you advise



Thanks.
Rik

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