[bksvol-discuss] Re: html ed. of The Crystal Cave in Bookshare edition.
- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:32:38 -0400
What program did you use to convert the html file?
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>
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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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