I don't understand why you are intimidated by scanning, Kim. It's just like proofreading except that you hold the book down on a piece of glass and press a button first.
_ _ _"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:09 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Why?
Hi, Tim, I don't know if anyone ever told you the reason for this term. Carrie Karnos is the one responsible for the term "deranged perfectionist" to describe certain volunteers, i.e., submitters who insist on practically proofreading their submissions so the proofreader should theoretically have little to do and those proofreaders who don't think the book is proofread unless they read the file from first word to last, despite being assured by the submitter that headers and footers are stripped, page numbers and chapters have been protected, etc. etc. Speaking strictly for myself, since I proofread fiction, my ulterior motive, aside from making sure that scannos are deleted, formatting is correct, and the book is a pleasure to read, is that delightful prospect of reading a good story before the general Bookshare membership gets the chance to download the file. I also get the opportunity of informing the submitter that their scans are good. I like them to know if I found anything or nothing. Call it a way to ensure their baby is being taken care of before being sent up for approval. I really admire those folks who aren't intimidated about scanning print as I am. I really like looking at a file and can read and delete stuff that shouldn't be there. It doesn't drive me crazy. Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Syfert Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 3:49 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Why? Deranged perfectionist? Who's deranged? You better believe it!! (evil smile). _____ From: Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 6:13 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Why? Hi, Jamie's right. I remember proofreading a book and running it through the spell-checker before sending it up for approval and was startled to find that I needed to add some spaces to the book or something like that. Due to the Braille display not being recognized, I hadn't been aware of how the line looked based on what I heard. I can see why Bookshare insists on two people overseeing the processing of the file, one to submit and one to proofread. And if you have two deranged perfectionists on a given project, submitter and proofreader, then that book will be as near perfect as we can make it, barring stupid things like typographical errors or missing words left out by the publisher. Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamie Yates, CPhT Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 10:08 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Why? It's true that if you scan the book you have the book to proofread with, but I think, in the beginning, there were very few sighted volunteers for Bookshare. So a person without sight couldn't really compare it with the print book, right? And then, too, it's always good to have a second pair of eyes (um, or fingers or ears, sorry!) to look something over. I am in general a pretty careful scanner but I have several times submitted a book that was missing pages and it's my custom to page down through the file counting page numbers to make sure they are all there. I even once submitted a book that had a chunk of pages twice. It's like when you read a book that has errors in the print--your eyes see what they want to see and not what is really there. So sometimes you don't even see the mistakes. And of course there are scanners (like me) who don't read every word of what they scan, and there are proofreaders who don't read every word of what they proof. So two sets of eyes on the job are better than one. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith See everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html
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