[bksvol-discuss] Re: html ed. of The Crystal Cave in Bookshare edition.
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:13:39 -0700 (PDT)
In either case, the imporioved book will probably not
get into the collection itself for a while, judging
from how long BSO books are sitting in the admin
queue. However, if you ask Gustavo to approve it and
put it in asap my understanding is that he will--or he
used to honor those requests if there were not too
many of them.
Cindy
--- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Amy I already fixed up the table of contents.
> Believe me, if you can just
> wait a couple of days, I have got it practically all
> fixed up having used
> k1000 on it. I have it up to 99.5 accuracy and the
> only occurances of
> errors are one time occurances. I have the hard
> copy of the book here. I
> will not be able to promise you I can finish it for
> a few days but it is
> going to be fast for me to work on it if you can
> just be patient.
>
> The reality is, it exists in the collection and the
> copy is pretty good
> overall. The fixes are easy with good tools. If
> you want to fix it up
> because you cannot wait a few days for me to finish
> up here, please let me
> know.
>
> E.
>
>
> At 10:46 AM 9/21/2006, you wrote:
>
> >I dont mind doing it if as you say it is not too
> bad if I can get a copy
> >of the table of contents which is at best
> confusiing and by my mind
> >inaccurate. The other problems can be fixed
> regardless of edition and I
> >have the Morrow hardback so it will work. Thanks
> for the offer but you
> >have enough on you plate and I downloaded this to
> read anyway and if you
> >say it isn't that bad I will trust that. zi must
> have hit the bad spots as
> >I went straight to the pp I had left of in the book
> and that hit me like
> >the clishes I hate. Thanks. As I read it it will be
> no trouble correcting
> >it but will bookshare accept the corrections in tex
> or how do I get it
> >inot rtf - the option was not in "save as"
> >
> >Amy.
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "E."
> <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:34 AM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: html ed. of The
> Crystal Cave in Bookshare
> >edition.
> >
> >
> >>The book is, in fact, in very good shape. It only
> has a few errors and
> >>those are all in just a few places. I have
> already downloaded the html,
> >>converted to rtf and corrected much of it. Do you
> want me to fix it up
> >>and upload it in a few days or do you want to
> upload your corrected file?
> >>
> >>E.
> >>
> >>
> >>At 10:21 AM 9/21/2006, you wrote:
> >>
> >>>Okay, I have done all you said except that I
> could not convert it to rtf
> >>>but could to txt. Now the easily found copy of
> the book I have is not
> >>>the edition they used: ie my hardback v. the
> original paperback. My
> >>>librarian is looking for the paperback and I will
> be when & if my aide
> >>>arrives as I am certain I have it here somewhere
> but not where it should
> >>>have been. Worse case scenario: if I cannot find
> the matching edition,
> >>>can I correct it using the hardback and change
> the info accordingly as I
> >>>do not believe I can scan without a program
> beyond my Dell "All in one"
> >>>though I used that in combo with K1000 to do all
> my previous
> >>>scanning. I do know this book as it is would
> have turned the young
> >>>Merlin's hair white even before he was a wizard.
> >>>
> >>>My memory of the Fawcett is that it is very close
> to the hardback though
> >>>the pagination as indicated in the contents is
> somewhat different. Using
> >>>this copy to correct will enable me to fix the
> fact that it has both
> >>>roman numerals and arabic numerals for the same
> pages but the numbers
> >>>are different. Weird. I too love it and after
> being frustrated by having
> >>>to submit Genji and Kipling for others to
> validate (hoopefully there
> >>>won't be too much work) I can pay back by fixing
> this, which I turned to
> >>>in order to escape the frustration of the other -
> only to face the
> >>>problem of not being able to use VRS on my
> machine and having to go
> >>>round-about to download anything from bookshare
> by saving the books and
> >>>opening them later with Internet Explorer and
> then, when I finally get
> >>>The Crystal Cave, this is what I find. At least
> this is one book that I
> >>>can fix one way or other (by hook or by crook and
> any other cliche you
> >>>can think of as long as I can do it) we can worry
> about it going back
> >>>from txt to rft or html or whatever once I get it
> right (and you the
> >>>braille copy - good luck . If your hair isn't
> already white, like mine,
> >>>it may be when he find what this is not.
> >>>
> >>>Amy
> >>>----- Original Message ----- From: "E."
> <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:04 AM
> >>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: html ed. of The
> Crystal Cave in Bookshare
> >>>edition.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I believe she is saying this exists in a book
> already in the bookshare
> >>>>collection. Amy, there are books in the
> collection, particularly ones
> >>>>added in the beginning days of bookshare whose
> quality is not all it
> >>>>should be. Good that you mention books like
> that on this
> >>>>list. Perhaps somebody wants to take it, and
> with a print copy, fix it
> >>>>up and resubmit. To do so, somebody would
> download the html as you did,
> >>>>use save as to save the file as .rtf, fix up the
> file and resubmit to
> >>>>bookshare with the letters bso in front of the
> title as in
> >>>>
> >>>>bso-The Crystal Cave
> >>>>
> >>>>By the way, one of my favorite books. I think I
> can get a braille copy
> >>>>from NLS. When I have time, I will do my best
> to correct the bookshare
> >>>>copy and re-submit as a bso if nobody has fixed
> it up before then.
> >>>>Thanks for being vigilant and letting us all
> know.
> >>>>
> >>>>E.
> >>>>
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