This is what the submitters should do, but it doesn't happen. They miss them. Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert tweedy" <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:34 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books with die ought to die Why don't the submitter just fix these errors as they hear them? For skype contact bobwichitaks For msn contact info rt5117@xxxxxxx no emails. ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:56 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books with die ought to die > As I also pointed out you really have to search for each and every > occurance of "die" because the combinations I listed simply do not > catch a > lot of occurances of "die" which ought to be "the". I believe that > a book > containing a lot of "die" for "the" ought to be rejected by a > validator > most of the time. The problem is just too big to validate easily. > > dieater > dieatre > dieory > dieorem > dieology > weadier > whedier > and on and on. > > The submitter needs to read a few pages at various places in the > book to > make sure di for th is fixed throughout the book by fixing the > brightness > settings at the beginning of the scan. Without doing this the > validator > is left with so much work that the book is often a nightmare to fix > up. > > Usually di for th occurs in scans where 1 replaces I as in "1 have" > and > there are other errors such as widdi for with widdiout for without > and on > and on and on. > > If the validator's name appeared along with the submitters when a > book > entered the collection the validator and scanner might feel more > ownership > and pride in a job well done. Also, the rest of us will be easily > able to > tell who is doing the kind of "jiffy validating" resulting in books > getting into the collection in such poor shape. > > What a shame to bso a book so newly added to the collection!! > E. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a > list > of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject > line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. __________ NOD32 2492 (20070830) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.