I am sad, but it is my own fault, I guess.
My submission of Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times by Ralph
Stanley and Eddie Dean, published in 2009.
Dang it if I didn't have some bad luck.
I had been wanting to read this, I had been watching for it on Bookshare.
I get a friend to loan me his copy, and last week I check the
Bookshare collection just before I start to scan it.
I submitted it on Sunday. It was downloaded for proofing on Monday.
And it was rejected on Tuesday.
What?
Sure enough, the proofreader replies to my email query, the reason was
it was already in the collection.
It had been added on April 23!
Ain't that just like a sad and lonesome old song?
Anyhow, not to whine all too sorrowful.
Any suggestions what I can improve so as not to have more rejection
anxiety?
But .... Here is also what I wanted to mention.
My scan had a fix in it that the copy of this book now in the
Bookshare collection that I just downloaded does NOT.
At the beginning of the text in EACH chapter, the enlarged font of the
first word in the paragraph is separated from that first word.
Example
from Chapter Seven....
W
e were really on a roll.We had a
My submission from my scan fixed that.
Maybe it does not matter that much.
But as a reader of many books, and a long time big lover and believer
in Bookshare, I want to pass along that.
And ask that it me not so currently an accepted practice in these
publisher supplied books.
I'll try to avoid being rejected.
I'll keep on scanning.
But wow, my 14-15 hours last week, well I have a copy of my own to
read anyhow.
Thanks.
Richard (Rik) James
d28rik@xxxxxxx
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.
