[bksvol-discuss] Re: Where are those contrarians?
- From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:23:41 -0400
Well, the brf version did get rid of the page numbers. It also did the
great service of making sure that most of the stories started in the middle
of a page, so even trying to skim through the book won't let you know when
the stories begin. By the way, the stories in the book are great and the
scanning excellent.
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From: "The Pardees" <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 7:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Where are those contrarians?
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> Hi Kellie,
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> All I can comment on is my experience with my submissions that I have
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> downloaded from Bookshare and read . Plus other submissions that I have
> downloaded. Two examples of the first are Thieves Dozen and Cheapskate.
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> downloaded them in Kurzweil, which chooses the Daisy format. Both retained
> the chapter headings and page numbering.
> There were no headings, since I had removed them.
> About other people's submissions I've downloaded, using Kurzweil and more
> recently, Bookport, the pages were numbered and there were no garbled
> headers. Perhaps I have been lucky in choosing books that had all headers
> stripped by the valadater, but I doubt it.
> Maybe the book is run through the stripper a number of times to catch the
> junk, I don't know. I do not doubt that others have problems with the
> stripper, but so far I have not.
> I will now return to scanning Motive For Murder, which I will submit in
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> I feel all of us on this list should be proud of what we have contributed
> to a extremely worthy project.
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> Jim
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> At 04:22 PM 7/23/05, you wrote:
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> >Hi Jim,
> >I think everyone agrees with you about nonsensical header gap. <grin>
> >Unfortunately, it's those mangled headers that *don't* get stripped by
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> >stripper. When the headers are nice and neat and uniform they, along with
> >page numbers and chapter headings, get munched without a second thought.
> >Which leaves all of us, lovers and haters of headers alike, stuck with
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> >junk that isn't useful even to those of us who may actually need info
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> >Kellie
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