Misswings,
The books we're talking about don't need to be
scanned, they need to be validated. Some sound pretty
dull to me, but some sound interesting. Go to the
download list and scroll all the way to the bottom.
Maybe you'd be interested in validating one of the Ark
or kes books.
Cindy
--- MissWings <misswings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd scan some of the ark or kes files, but seeing as
> I don't have a scanner
> I can't help too much with that. Hopefully I can
> convince the Department
> of Rehabilitation to get me a scanner since I'll be
> going to a four-year
> college in the fall about two hours from here. I've
> been told that instead
> of having readers the school uses scanners, so maybe
> I'll be able to get
> one then and can help with some of the other formats
> besides rtf, doc or
> txt, as well as scan and add to the collection that
> way. If I do get one
> I'll probably be asking a lot of questions since
> I've never really used a
> scanner before, except for the time I had one which
> was back in 1995 when I
> used the old OpenBook scanner. I can help with
> validating some of the
> other books though. Just out of curiosity, is there
> not a way for whoever
> submitted the books to maybe resubmit them in more
> accessible formats? If
> I'm going to scan a book I'd save it until it was
> added to the collection
> before I got rid of all the work I'd done on it, so
> if the submitters
> valued the time and effort spent on scanning
> something, or if I'd scanned
> something I'd keep track of it until I saw it in the
> collection or received
> credit for submitting it. It was just a thought,
> although I don't know how
> you'd go about doing it. It just seems sad having
> so many books in formats
> that not everyone is able to access and work with,
> and some of the books
> sounded interesting. I can't remember any of them
> right now, but if they'd
> been in an accessible format I would have validated
> them, but since they
> weren't I had to leave them. I didn't mean for this
> to get so long, so
> I'll close before this turns into a book of its own!
> Thanks to everyone
> for reading.
>
> MissWings
>
> At 08:37 PM 6/9/2007, Grandma Cindy wrote:
>
> >Most are ARK or KES. I'll take the F. Scott
> Fitzgerald
> >biographhy if no one else wants it. It was
> submitted
> >by Kenneth Cross last November and I know from what
> >people have said that he does a careful job of
> >pre-validating. Robin, if you're, I'm wondering why
> >you released it--just a matter of time? I notice
> it's
> >a long book.
> >
> >I haven't downloaded it yet to see if someone else
> >wants it because I won't be able to get to it for a
> >while. Amy, are you interested?
> >
> >I'll take the western, too, if no one else wants
> it.
> >I'd be validating it without a copy of the book, so
> if
> >it's not in good shape or pages are missing I'd
> have
> >to reject it.
> >
> >Cindy
> >
> >
> >
>
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