[bksvol-discuss] Re: book scanning woes
- From: Linda Stover <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 00:53:07 -0600
Julie,
I'll watch for it. I thought I had seen it in the collection already,
and then it vanished, and I can't even find it through search. Does
anyone know what happened?
Courtney
On 2/9/09, Julie & Miss Mercy <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hamley. It's a fictionalized account
> of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln and very good. This is actually the
> longest book I've scanned thus far so while it may seem like a hill of
> beans compared to some of the books others have scanned, it's an
> accomplishment for me. ,smile> someone reviewed the book on the book
> list I run, I was intrigued by it and couldn't find it on Bookshare or
> Web Braille, although it is on NLS Digital, which is where the person
> who reviewed it on my list got it, but because of my hearing impairment
> I don't do audio books. For those members of Bookshare like myself,
> they'll be able to read it soon.
>
> Linda Stover wrote:
>> Julie,
>>
>> What is the title of the book you proofed? I'm a huge fan of fiction
>> dealing with the Civil War, and I want to make sure and watch for it.
>> Thanks, and I admire your dedication immensely,
>> Courtney
>>
>> On 2/8/09, Julie & Miss Mercy <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I definitely sympathize. I just finished editing a 600-plus page book,
>>> no easy feat for me since I'm hearing impaired but have to use speech
>>> since I don't have a braille display, and I had to put in a few cut-off
>>> lines and missing words with the help of Katie Mihaly, another volunteer
>>> here. I couldn't have done it without her because I'd already taken the
>>> book back, and while the errors I had to deal with are nothing like what
>>> you're dealing with, I can sympathize with what a bear those books can
>>> be to scan then have to clean up. It's a comfort to me though to know
>>> that anyone interested in historical fiction from the Civil War era will
>>> get a lot of good reading out of it once it's in the collection though,
>>> at least for me, and I'm sure once yours is done, you can say the same
>>> too. i get a lot out of knowing that someone will have an easy read when
>>> I'm done with a book, especially when it's a long one.
>>>
>>> Julia wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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