[bksvol-discuss] Re: books with die ought to die

  • From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:45:21 -0500

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?
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----- 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.
>
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