[bksvol-discuss] Re: another newby questions please and thank you.
- From: "gwen tweedy" <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:27:54 -0500
Thanks a million Cindy
yes I am totally blind so don't know really where the scanner hits but thanks
so much for the help and I'm trying and learning,
gonna rest from scanning and just read for a few days though
to see if I did well or not,
I just finished
scanning
Family ever After by Margaret Daley
it was really good,
but I have enough up there now
I need to be sure I am even doing it right silly to put a bunch up there,
if I am messing up and things sense I am brand new, and never done this before.
I am enjoying it and it is fun
but I don't want to do a lot and find out I messed up.
I did my rejected book again, Barried sins by Marta Perry,
hoping that turned out better this time,
the others I have in waiting are,
Against All Odds by Chuck Norris,
Wanted
the author just flew out of my head,
seems like there was one more
but I did receive a most wonderful email today,
trying and learning I hope,
Woman At the Well by Daile Evans Rogers was added to the library,
the first one I got right,
so that encourages me to keep trying.
Thanks
for excepting my trials.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:47 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: another newby questions please and thank you.
You do have to press down on the spine of the book fairly firmly, so
it's flat,but not so hard that you break the glass. smile. I don't what scanner
or program you're using. I set the bottom of the book at the bottom of my
scanner and make sure that the the edges of the pages are not way over at the
edge of the scanner. That's where they get cut off.
When you think you have the book placed correctly, do a Preview Then
you adjust the surrounding lines do that the text is within the box. Then you
can scanner--but be careful not to move the book. You can just open it in the
middle of the scanner, It's where the bordering square is that determines what
gets scan. If it cuts off any of the text it won't scan.
Gwen, I'm sorry but I forgot whether or not you're blind. If you are
and can't see to set the frame around the text that you want to scan Somebody
else better tell you what to do. smile
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and
books-being-scanned list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Tue, 8/4/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] another newby questions please and thank
you.
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 11:57 AM
My name is Gwen wife of Bob who is already a volunteer for a long
time here on bookshare.
My questions are these:
Is there a better place than another to put a book on your scanner bed
The first mailing I got from volunteer was a rejection of a book
because words were cut off but what was odd was when I read it or herard it on
the scanner I heard all the words so didn't know this so thought it was OK and
put up a bad book.
Now ordenarily,
a few years ago,
I would have just stopped, gave up and chalked it up to I'll never
learn or get it,
but for some reason I am glad I got and that that first mailing was a
rejection,
because it tells me, and taught me what not to do.
And I am ready and willing to try again,
I am determined, I am one that I have to get it right or knock myself
out trying *smile*
I try to never but seldom let any thing beat me.
another question:
I know the book has to lie flat, but what do you really push down to
make that happen, because you have to be careful if it is not your book and I
feel like I'm putting a terrible amount of pressure on hands and book just to
get it to come out right,
do you really have to press down that hard?
Thanks for any help.
Sorry if these questions seem silly or mundain.
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