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

  • From: "RJ / KJ" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:33:50 -0600

You are correct, Lori.
I also have had to search for the page numbers and so on.  
This is my experience, and as I do this, I am pretty much doing just as you
say.

There seems to be a variety of way that us Bookshare folks handle all this.

It might be tedious, and takes more time, but after I got the habit of
wanting that page stuff to be straight, I kind of get a bit obsessed about
making it all right.  I question my own sanity about it though, sometimes.

Though I reconcile my own obsession with the comfort in knowing I did my
best. And these books in our collection that are submitted, validated, and
approved, they are in this collection for a long time, and potentially are
for a pleasant reading experience for all the Bookshare members.  It is
worth the time, when I think of it that way.

Thanks.
Rik





 

-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:26 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validation questions: page numbers, chapter
headings

Rick, In determining the page number for the chapter, can't you just arrow 
up to the bottom of the previous page?  Also, sometimes in books I have 
validated the first page of a chapter does not have a number.

In the book I am currently validating, the numbers are at the bottom of the 
pages, and many of them were cut off in the scan, so I constantly have to 
re-check previous pages or future pages to remember what number to write in.

Oh, for a perfect world or at least a perfect scan!

Cat Lover Lori

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJ / KJ" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:44 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validation questions: page numbers, chapter 
headings


> Thanks everyone for your help and sharing what you do on this page number
> and chapter heading issue.
> I can see where it is okay to leave page number at bottom. As a reader I
> actually have gotten to like hearing the page number and am getting used 
> to
> thinking okay I'm on page so and so.  So if the page number is at the 
> bottom
> then that what page number I heard is what I just read.
>
> The other thing about it though in the case of trying to find where these
> missing chapter headings are suppose to be, this is a situation I find 
> that
> I will have to go to the BOTTOM of the page in question to tell what page 
> I
> am on.  And that also takes me extra time. I do find it much easier to 
> have
> the page numbers at the top of the page.  And I'd just as soon validate
> books where the submitter has taken the time to do that.  Is that not fair
> of me to hope?
>
> Thanks.
> Rik
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:51 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validation questions: page numbers, chapter
> headings
>
> Hi Rick.
> The manual is unclear about what to do with page numbers, but I think they
> are preferred at the top of the page.
>
> When I find page numbers at the bottom of the page, however, I leave them
> there if they are consistently there. Frankly, I'm not going to take the
> time and effort to move hundreds of page numbers from the bottom to the 
> top
> of a page, nor do I expect a scannor to do that. Some people move them, 
> and
> I admire them for it, but tedium is not my strong suit.
>
> However, concerning the missing chapter headings, I do put them in, 
> because
> that's an integral part of the book. In fact, one of the first things I do
> with a book that has a table of contents is to check the last chapter to 
> see
>
> if the page number for that chapter matches the kurzweil number for that
> page, making allowances for all the preliminary pages. If they match, then

> I
>
> know I'm lucky and the chances of missing or duplicated pages is very 
> small.
>
> If they don't match, then I try to find the last place they do, and thus
> narrow down the place where missing, or duplicated pages might exist.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "RJ / KJ" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:53 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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