[bksvol-discuss] guidelines for uploading
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:48:41 -0400
Dear Kaitlyn and Everyone,
I'd like to know how to reach the guidelines for uploading. I saw the link for
uploading but didn't click on it because I didn't really understand what it
would mean or how uploading was done. I also don't understand the formats
identified by initials which sound completely random to me.
I'm sorry to be asking such basic questions. I do e mail and have saved much of
it in diverse files in my documents. I've also gone to the net to buy music,
get Celtic tunes and lyrics, access free knitting patterns and read fan g.
rated fiction about Hobbits, browse the Wisconsin braille volunteer site to
find braille books to borrow, read via jaws, public domain literature, and
read about authors. I also know how to search NLS and download web braille and
transfer those files to my braille note.
Other than the above, I barely understand my computer. However, I promise to
learn and apply everything you explain. My file of Book Share volunteer tips is
already long and waiting for me to begin, so I can refer to it and not ask
every little thing.
Always With Love, and Always Turning Pages,
Lissi
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From: Kaitly n Hill
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:56 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Hi Julie,
I believe you may be right on the short description field. I thought I read
in the guidelines for uploading to upload the book in .kes format with images
so that they could be re-ocr'ed at some point when ocr improved. Is this not
all that important? If not I can convert them to .rtf before uploading.
Kaitlyn
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true
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julie Morales
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:47 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Hi, Kaitlyn. First of all, if you scanned the books yourself, you might try
opening the books in Kurzweil and resaving them in .rtf format. While Bookshare
certainly does accept submitted books in .kes format, your books might get
validated faster if submitted in Rich Text Format, because more people can
access that format who don't have Kurzweil so who would otherwise not be able
to take your books. If you do choose to submit in .kes...and even if you do
decide to convert to .rtf, check the synopsis field, primarily the short
synopsis. This field gives a lot of people, including, at one time, me, a lot
of problems because if your synopsis is too long, you get bumped back to the
page where you filled in all the info and everything looks like it's in place.
The only thing missing was the title of the book in the upload field, and there
was no notice of what the exact error was, so I had many hours of frustration
with that until I finally figured out that it was my short synopsis. Once I
shortened it, it went through. Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kaitlyn Hill
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Hello All,
I am a new member to BookShare. On your question about cutting the bindings
of books. I have a Canon duplex scanner and I go to Office depo and they will
cut the bindings off for $1. They will rebind them for $2.50. What I found
interesting is many people have this done to make it easier to read books. This
way they can lay them flat on the table.
I do have a question. I did upload one book successfully today but two
others I keep getting errors on. I have reviewed the fields and everything
appears to be correct. I am uploading them in . kes format. Any ideas?
Kaitlyn
No one is given a dream without also being given the power to make it come
true
Reconnective Healing energy Practitioner
Numerologist, Get your personal reading
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the number of
moments that take your breath away:)
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Estelnalissi
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:26 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Dear Julie,
Thank you for your answer about the chopper and document feeder. Is
chopping something we can try at home? Or, is it an industrial strength
machine, too expensive or practical for the single user?
Always Turning Pages,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Morales
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:13 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
The Bookshare office has a high-speed scanner with a document feeder, so
scanning all those books is definitely a feat, but it goes much faster than it
would for most of us, and yes, they chop off the bindings so they can put the
pages through the feeder. Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: Estelnalissi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Dear Carrie and List,
Excuse the silly question but do you mean you literally chop? For
example, do you slice off bindings so the pages scan better? If so, how do you
do that?
Also, can anyone suggest how to flatten a book to get the best scan? I
have so many books I hope to scan and share but some I couldn't bear to chop,
while it would be all right with others because I would know they would
actually be read more if chopped than if not.
Always turning Pages,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
No no no, I didn't scan them all myself. There are maybe a dozen
volunteers who work at the office sometime during the week. Someone will chop
up a bunch of books, someone else will scan them, yesterday someone OCRed 30
books, so all I did was take books that needed to be submitted and submit them.
It's a group effort, really it is! Thursday I'll chop, scan and OCR some
books and then someone else will probably submit them. It's easier to do 20-30
books at a time thru each step than go thru the whole process with just one
book.
Carrie
Allison Mervis <allisonfm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wow! And you scanned all of those yourself? I'd better get crackin!
Lol!
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrie Karnos"
To: "Bookshare Vol Group"
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submitted 36 books today
> Hi all,
>
> I submitted the following books this morning:
>
> To the Manner Born by John Chaloner
> Livia or Buried Alive by Lawrence Durrell
> Women Like Us by Erica Abeel
> Fat City by Leonard Gardner
> Believing Cassandra by Alan AtKisson
> Malafrena by Ursula K. LeGuin
> The Secret by Julie Garwood
> Breach of Duty by J. A. Jance
> Three Fates by Nora Roberts
> People of the Lake by Richard Leakey
> The Last Paradise by James D. Houston
> The Phantom of M anhattan by Frederick Forsyth
> The Gorbachev Phenomenon by Moshe Lewin
> Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister by Evelyn Keyes
> Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
> Heidelberg by Wolfgang Kootz
> Skeleton Dance by Aaron Elkins
> Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
> Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
> The Music Man by Meredith Willson
> Richard Hittleman's Introduction to Yoga by Richard Hittleman
> The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
> The Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis
> Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the US by William
Burnham
> Frommer's 99 England
> Moving and Living Abroad by Albright, Chu and Austin
> Designing Babies by Roger Gosden
> The Challenge of the Sea by Arthur C. Clarke
> Over His Dead Body by Leslie Glass
> The Bang Devils by Patrick Foss
> My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
> The Struggle for Democracy by Greenberg and Page
> Mental Heal th: Culture, Race and Ethnicity by the US Dept of
Health and
> Human Services
>
> and some kiddie books:
> Andy and the Lion
> Mystery in the Night Woods
> Duffy and the Devil (Caldecott Medal book)
>
> In a few weeks, I'm leaving for a 3-week vacation in Europe, so I
want to
> make sure you all don't run out of books while I'm gone :-)
>
> Carrie
>
> PS, there's still another 30 books waiting to be chopped, 30
waiting to
> scanned, 20 waiting to be OCRed, and 30 waiting to be submitted,
in case
> anyone is interested in the backlog here at the office. And those
don't
> include books from any of the contracts...
>
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