Dear Gwen I may be speaking out of turn, but since you're helping Mayrie volunteer it seems to me that makes you a de facto volunteer, too, and I don't see why you can't post to thie list any time you have questions and the time. (I know 12-yar-olds are very busy, especially when school starts, and given the scanning you're doing on top of it). Cindy --- Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there everyone, > > Mayrie said that probably it would be all right if > I wrote to this list > just this once. I'm Gwen, the twelve-year-old whose > books Mayrie has been > submitting. She just got a note telling of our > first accepted > book. Yaye!!! I'm soooooo excited! I do most of > the work on my books, so > I am awesomely excited!!!! This is sooooo > neeeeeeat!! I really have > learned a lot doing this. --But so much more to > know. > > Now, my questions. Mayrie has told me what she is > learning about getting > books validated, but, and I'm sorry if we aren't > looking in the right > places, but I can't seem to find out how to make my > books as perfect as I > can. Could someone tell me please, what all I need > to do to make them the > best, easiest to evaluate, that I can. I just > learned about setting my > scanner for two pages. After I scan, here's what I > do. I look at the > first few pages, you know, the ones with all of the > copyright info on them > to make sure that they're legible. Then I put the > thing through the spell > checker, which I just recently learned how to do, > (fun!!) I fix what I can, > then I have been having Mayrie submit them. She > told me that a lot of > books are in RTF format. Should I change my KES > files into that before I > submit, or no? And what else? Sorry if this is TMI > too much > information. I am just sooooo thrilled. Thank you > all for being so nice > and helpful. I have been typing so fast, I mean > quickly, that I'll > probably have to learn how to use the spell checker, > which I think should > be a spelling checker, but anyway, on the e-mail > program too. Okay, I'll > stop. Thanks to everyone for being so nice and > helpful. > > Yaye!!! > So thrilled, > Gwen > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.