Lissi,I had left page headings, especially with books that had Chapter Titles which were also Story Titles since the chapters were stories in other contexts. It is confusing for Faulkner's readers and there are arguments 50 years later as to whether some of those books are novels or collections of stories but having the Headings keeps the reader aware of which of those stories/chapters he is reading at any given point. They can be confusing. I have done so in collections of short stories for the same reason as it is easy with or without sight to forget what story you are reading at any given point when you have been involved in the story. I sometimes so into a story that I forget that it is a story or which one. With Tolkien it is easy when reading Lost Tales or try remembering which of Hawthorne's tales is which. I once had to answer a question for my written doctoral exams by referring to the "title character" or "the protagonist" and using the details of the story because I could not think of the Character's name which was also the title of the story. It is easy to forget even major things when you are in the midst of something where it is the ideas that you remember.
I will, however, delete headings when the book's author is singular and we don't need reminding or if the chapters do not have names or the names are irrelevant. Thanks for clarifying if for me.
Amy----- Original Message ----- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:13 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: chapter headings preserved redux
Dear Tracey and Booksharian Friends, Applause, Tracey!As a volunteer and reader I see both sides of this coin, and when you strip headers and protect chapter names as you do, both sides of your coin are shiny!Scanning and validating aren't races, nor, even with the raise, they aren't money making ventures. If a volunteer is too rushed to strip headings, check page numbers, remove junk and do some proofreading and spellchecking, then scanning and validating might not be their best fit for volunteer work.Yesterday I downloaded a book from the new books page rated excellent. It had headers on every other page, page numbers scrambled and missing, and clumps of junk characters throughout. This book was neglected by both the scanner and the validator. I think one reason 2 people work on each book is so that if one is careless, the other will compensate. Nobody took pride in their work with this book. Neither gave it a second thoughtEarly on, one of the volunteers confided his method of systematically searching for junk characters as part of his protocol for validating a book. If either of the volunteers had searched for pound, dollar, caret, bracket, and slash signs, they could have removed shovelfuls , or they could have deleted them while reading the book. The book was infested.As far as I'm concerned, this book needs a rescan. When the raise in compensation comes in to effect, this means each mucked up book which is approved and then has a BSO approved will cost Bookshare ten dollars instead of five, and taking into account the administrative costs, this number goes way up. I once heard the expense to Bookshare was 50 dollars for each book approval. That number sounds pretty arbitrary, and could be way off, but volunteers who submit and upload substandard books are drawing money from the organization for doing shoddy work, leaving the real work to conscientious volunteers costing Bookshare double, possibly a hundred dollars a book, and frustrating members who are disappointed with the books they download from a book source they'd like to trust to provide reliably accurate books. What kind of help is that?I'm not proposing changes, and I realize volunteers on this list are here because they pride themselves in doing good work. We're on the honor system and I wish we had a means of encouraging careless volunteers to be more honorable and to adopt higher standards.And, if the costs I've used are way off the mark, please correct me. Always with love, Lissi----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:12 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: chapter headings preserved reduxIf you're sure that *every* header is *exactly* the same, down to the number of spaces between words, then the stripper will take care of them, and you don't have to. But I'd put something above chapter headingsanyway, just in case the stripper gets carried away with itself and stripschapter headings. Anymore, when I'm validating, I take out the headers and leave the page numbers. I've gotten too many books from Bookshare with header garbage all over the place, and it drives me nuts. So I take the headers out on books I work on, to save someone else's sanity. If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well. TracyI am so confused about headings any more. I have a scan that has prefect headers. If the master stripper is going to remove them, why do I have to? Cindy Lou--Think Pink ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:52 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] chapter headings preserved redux I'm starting to validate a new book. Am I correct in interpreting the recent posts correctly that I don't have to put anything on the line above the chapter number, which is the written word, even if the page numbers are all at the bottom? Or is that a safe thing to do only when the page numbers are at the top of the page? Cindy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.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. 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