[bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly disappearing books
- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:11:21 -0500
A scanner has to do some proofreading and be on the lookout for such things
I think.
Cindy Lou
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From: "Jamie Prater" <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:48 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly disappearing
books
How can a scanner avoid all the broken words with dashes and spaces placed
inappropriately? I have noticed this on several occasions when trying to
proofread material.
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From: Lori Castner
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly disappearing
books
Hi, Jamie,
I rejected one of the books, and the errors were not at all minor. As I
recall, as well as no page breaks, the book had many broken words with
dashes in the middle and many inappropriate paragraph breaks.
I'm letting you know this because as I recall you felt that your
experience level made it difficult for you to proofread the book. Your
experience level was not at all the problem.
I seldom reject books and will make a concerted effort to correct errors.
However, in this case, I knew that a rescan would take less time than
correcting all the problems and determining many of the page breaks would be
guess work at best. I realized clearly why rejections sometimes have to
occur.
I hope the scanner will ask for assistance.
Lori C.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:11 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: getting worried about possibly
disappearing books
Hi Jamie,
One of the books by Yeomans was rejected because there were no page
breaks. A rescan was requested. Another Yeomans book was rejected because
every line was its own paragraph. A rescan was requested. The third was
rejected because it was a duplicate of the first book. The person has also
submitted books that start with Chapter 1 and are missing all front matter.
We've suggested reading the online manual, or getting a scanning mentor, but
as far as I know, the submitter hasn't contacted any of us for help or
clarification about what's required for a book to be submitted. Not much
else we can do!
Carrie
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From: Jamie Prater <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 10:51:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] getting worried about possibly disappearing
books
Hi, all, I posted a message on the vookshare volunteer list last night.
Several weeks ago, somebody graciously submitted three books by Lilian B.
Yeomans, M.D., and one book by Lester Sumrall that I wanted to do but
couldn't because of minor formatting issues and pagination problems--needed
minor page number help but I'm not skilled in this and had to release all
four books. I thought one person had downloaded some of them, but now, I
cannot find them anywhere on the site. They're not in the
proofread/checkout list anywhere; they are not on the in process or the
awaiting approval list or the books in process list. Could a book just
disappear or did someone take them off the site for some reason? Nobody so
far has been able to help me find the books so I could check on their
progress. As far as words go, they were clean scans, they just needed
slightly more format help and pagination changes than I feel capable of. I
really wanted these books in the collection and am starting to get worried
as to what's happened to them. Thanks for any help and have a blessed day.
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