[bksvol-discuss] Re: a couple of questions
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:45:22 -0700
Hi Valerie!
Yaye! Thanks for chiming in on this! I thought you'd know.
Mayrie
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 9:48 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a couple of questions
Roger;
I actually prefer Word starter to full Word as there is less bloat and it
does everything I need for either preparing my scans or proofreading.
Another blind person can tell you how to handle ribbons, but less clutter
with everything else I need makes it my choice for Bookshare work.
Hope this helps some...
Valerie
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From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sat, July 14, 2012 6:49:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a couple of questions
This is interesting. A long time ago I decided that my niche as a volunteer
was a submitter. When I started out I proofed, but at that time the only
word processor I had was Wordpad and it only read page breaks on certain
books and then as I upgraded JAWS it stopped even that. I did not have Word
and I didn't want to spend the money for it for one thing and for another
thing I didn't want to have to learn it. You may recall that I have said
here before that I taught myself to use a computer in the first place and
with no help it is an utterly exhausting chore to learn the slightest thing.
Nevertheless, the more I learn the easier it is to learn more. This very
list has helped me to learn a lot of things about using a computer and from
here I have discovered other technical support lists which have been a help
too. However, I still decided to concentrate on submitting because I did not
have the equipment nor know how to do a really proper job of proofing.
Without Word or a decent word processor I am unable to enlarge chapter
headings or bold things or a lot of the tasks that have been discussed here.
When I scan a book for submission I do preproof it. In fact, right now I am
scanning an old mass market paperback that is falling apart and so I am
scanning it one page at a time and reading through each of those pages and
doing a spell check before scanning the next page. It is slow going, but
that is how I am doing it and I am using Open Book for that. The formatting
and other tasks that make a book ready to add to the collection I leave for
the proofreader. Since my submissions are preproofed I think they are pretty
easy proofs, but there are still things for the proofreader to do. Then this
past November my computer went kaput and I got a new one. It does have Word
starter on it, but I haven't done much with it and have not looked very
closely at what I can do with it because I figured it was a really dummed
down version of Word. On reading this message to which I am replying,
though, I decided to try the instructions on how to make it read page breaks
and -- voila! -- it worked. That makes me interested in what else I can do
with it. Here is my question for now. Can Word starter be used for the
various proofreading tasks that are commonly discussed on this list? If it
can I am thinking that I just might try proofreading again or more
thoroughly preproof my own submissions. If I do that I can warn you that I
will be asking questions that have been discussed here time and time again
and that did not seem relevant to me so that I never paid much attention. I
have plenty of time to consider it though. After all, the need right now
seems to be for submitters, not proofreaders.
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