[bksvol-discuss] Re: What do I do about this?

  • From: Christopher Zeigler <chrisallen032@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Bookshare book discussion list <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:35:08 -0400

Hello all
Would you please send me the one of the pages off list maybe the first one
and maybe I can try to enlarge it and decipher it?
Please feel free to email me off list with this.
Maintenance Chrisallen032@xxxxxxxxx

Again please feel free to email me off list with some of the pages.
I will try to do my very best I can.
On Oct 20, 2015 2:50 PM, "Ali" <aalhajamy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If they're literally unintelligible to the scanner, there isn't much you
can do, short of getting a sighted person to read them to you and typing
their contents manually into the file. I saw something similar in one of my
editions of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. At the end of the book is a
seventy-five-page reproduction of Barnes's handwritten drafts of the novel,
with her corrections and notes in the margins. The proofreader must have
faced the same problem you did, because they wrote: [Image Removed: The
remainder of this book is an image of the original publications and is not
legible. This covered pages 244 - 319.] The fact that Madeleine allowed
this book into the collection despite the missing portion leads me to
believe that, in extreme cases where there is no way at all of adequately
scanning or proofing a given section from a book, you're allowed to simply
excise it, though of course you should wait for confirmation on that before
you continue.

On 20/10/2015 13:50, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81 for
DMARC) wrote:

I am currently scanning a book that I read before losing my eyesight.
That was some time more than twenty-seven years ago and so, while I
remember enough to know what I have now encountered, I don't remember it
well enough to describe it. I have reached the appendix and there is one or
more pages that contain uncaptioned photographs of government documents
that were obtained through the freedom of information act. I recall that
the documents have names and passages that have been blotted out by the
government before they were turned over. Of course, I do not recall the
wording of these documents. No matter what settings I use my attempts to
scan this material results in pure garble. There are references throughout
the text of the book to these documents, so I consider them to be relevant.
For right now I have simply put the following statement in brackets. This
page contains photographs of government documents that cannot be described
here. My question is, does anyone have any other suggestions as to how I
should handle this situation?
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