[bksvol-discuss] Re: What is Mandatory Vs what Are was: Guidelines for Books (was Re: Re: was Navigation what do members prefer?)
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:49:12 -0800
The lack of navigation ease and page breaks and numbers is why we
volunteers will continue to be needed (for at least my lifetime, I
hope. smile
And I'm curious--do the eBooks have foreign words and names spelled
properly, i.e., with diacritical marks? Or is that something else that
only conscientious volunteers like Gail and Barbara do?
> page breaks, the publisher quality versions we get don't have them either.
>
This
>
> Judy s.
>
> On 11/25/2012 8:30 AM, Regina Alvarado wrote:
>>
>> Judy:
>> Well put! This is an interesting thought! What are the requirements for
>> the
>> publishers? Are they adhering to the 20, 18, 16, 14 convention? Are they
>> making sure there are page breaks, etc.? Not if what I have seen of
>> publisher books. The few I have read don't even have page breaks or
>> numbered pages. If Daisy is so darned important, why aren't the
>> publishers
>> held to the same things we are as volunteers? I personally do not have any
>> problem with trying to make it as Daisy friendly as I can, but if someone
>> buys a book from iTunes or Amazon, they are not Daisy. I read my books in
>> Braille, then transfer to Word in .doc and change to RTF. Then I have to
>> go
>> through fonts and bolding. It is a lot of work that publishers just don't
>> do.
>> Reggie
>>
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