[bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
- From: chatter8712@xxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:09:51 -0500
Long book? Try Executive Orders by Tom Clancey. About 1,5000 pages, if
memory serves.
On 2/9/09, Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow, that's a really long book! At least we are giving people a quality book
> to read when we're finally done, see, I've already adopted Julie's way of
> thinking.
> Julia
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Stover" <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:33 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
>
>
>> Julia,
>>
>> It eventually ends, or so I'm telling myself. I'm currently scanning
>> a BSO of Trinity by Leon Uris, which is 897 pages long. I was over
>> half way through when I realized that I was scanning in the wrong mode
>> in Kurzweil, meaning that the page breaks wouldn't show up on
>> Bookshare, so over I've started. Here's to perseverance *grin*
>> Courtney
>>
>> On 2/8/09, Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Yes, it gives me the courage to go on, smile.
>>> Julia
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Linda Stover" <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:21 AM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
>>>
>>>
>>>> Julia,
>>>>
>>>> Does it help in the slightest that from everything I've read on
>>>> Amazon, it looks like a brilliant book, and I will devour it as soon
>>>> as it is submitted?
>>>> Courtney
>>>>
>>>> On 2/8/09, Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> We do understand and sympathize. How awful!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy
>>>>>
>>>>> WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS
>>>>> AVAILABLE AT
>>>>> http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm
>>>>> www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
>>>>> http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
>>>>> www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Julia <julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] book scanning woes
>>>>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 9:06 PM
>>>>>> Hi, just thought I'd share my frustration with people
>>>>>> who understand. I'm almost done with a six hundred page
>>>>>> tome by Barbara wood. I took this book out through
>>>>>> interlibrary loan, and just found out that it was due back
>>>>>> yesterday, and I don't see it anywhere in my loans list.
>>>>>> Then, when I go to read it, I switched from grayscale to
>>>>>> dynamic threshold halfway through in an attempt to preserve
>>>>>> page numbers, there were letters missing from the beginning
>>>>>> of lines. This means that I now have over three hundred
>>>>>> pages to rescan! I guess I should've stuck to grayscale,
>>>>>> arg!
>>>>>> On top of that, the parts didn't scan at all, this
>>>>>> means that there are two blank pages, and then the text just
>>>>>> continues with no warning that you've now switched a
>>>>>> good ten years forward!Just for the record, the book is
>>>>>> Green City in the Sun. Julia
>>>>>
>>>>>
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