[bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

  • From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:59:32 -0500

Hi Kim and cookbook lovers!

Cookbooks are hard to scan, because of the ingredients being in two columns and the fractions give the OCR fits, so there are zillions of scanos on the fractions. I enjoy bringing those "strong willed children" into well-behaved ones. Unless yu have sight or an optacon, I don't know how those scanos could be corrected by the scanist.

Debby

At 09:47 PM 10/27/2009, Monica Willyard wrote
Kim, I have a scanner that's very similar to yours. If you copy the titles of the cookbooks from your Amazon list to an email, people on this list may be able to help you either with scanning or proofreading some of them. (smile) Cookbooks can be tough, and I wouldn't suggest them as a first project for someone learning to scan. However, after you get comfortable with scanning, cookbooks can be scanned. They like strong-willed children, tough to tame but well worth the effort.

Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker



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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Friedman
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:40 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

Hi, okay, I take your point. I just didn't want to clutter up the list unnecessarily. I also hesitated since I was informed about how difficult cookbooks are to scan. How do you wish me to proceed on this? Would you like me to go to amazon.com and print out the cookbooks I found on my shopping cart and wish lists? I can make a copy of the cookbooks which I found interesting and send it to the list. Will that do? Regards, Kim.


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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike and Lori Castner
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 5:34 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

Kim, I would encourage people to write you about this project onlist, not off list. This has to do with building the collection.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>Kim Friedman
To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 12:08 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

Hi, Monica, I thank you for your message. This stuff, needless to say, is unknown territory to me. The stuff I found on amazon.com vary in date, but I'll bet you some of them are definitely of recent vintage (not sure though). I thought these would be a change from the usual Weight Watcher stuff of which Bookshare seems to have a great amount. I like ethnic cookbooks and seem to be gravitating to cookbooks about desserts and baking, if only for making me imagine how those desserts might taste. (I'm getting hungry just thinking about this stuff.) I am not saying there shouldn't be books on health, diet, and nutrition, but I lean towards the straight cookbook that concerns itself with what people eat in a particular cuisine, how to get the ingredients, cooking methods, history of cooking in that cuisine, and (I hope) lovely delicious recipe instructions that make me wish I were eating what I'm reading about. Would anybody like me to go into amazon.com and I can send the names of cookbooks that I'm interested in seeing at bookshare, both the ones on my shopping cart (to be bought later) and those on my wish list? I think if anyone is interested in this I should send the lists directly to interested parties on the Bookshare volunteer discussion list. Also they might write me off list so nobody gets in trouble. Regards, Kim. <mailto:.bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:36 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

Hi Kim and Jamie. For what it's worth, I've found that many cookbooks from the 80s and early 90s scan better than brand new cookbooks. I think that's because they were using computers with more standard fonts, and they tend to use real fractions instead of the half symbol in ingredient lists. Cookbooks from the 60s, on the other hand, don't scan so well because they often use a font that is sort of decorative or like handwriting, and the paper has yellowed. The Frugal Gourmet books from the late 80s scanned very well. I wish I still had them to submit. I scanned them back when I was using DOS when I scanned them in 1991, and they were almost flawless. I couldn't convert them when I started using Windows, and that means scanning them from scratch. I got them from my local library. That means I can get them again. I just need some vacation time to do more scanning. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine is my favorite in that series. Oh no! Now I've made myself hungry from thinking about the Italian gravy recipe in that book.

Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker



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