[bksvol-discuss] Re: hyphenated words between pages.
- From: Cindy Ray <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:47:44 -0600
That last was from Cindy Lou Ray. LOL.
On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Sue Stevens wrote:
> Yes. Once I saw rime, when the word was obviously time. I checked on
> books.google.com, and the word was written as rime there as well. It didn’t
> make sense, and I confess to changing it to time. I know that when I was a
> student I would have really scoffed at rime instead of time.
>
> Sue S.
>
>
> From: Cindy
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 5:13 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: hyphenated words between pages.
>
> EScellent point, Sue. We ought to be allowed to change scannos even if the
> errors are in the print book, since I assume it is the author's words we
> don't want to change, not publishers' mistakes, if the book has not been
> edited well; maybe m y assumption is incorrect.
> Cindy
>
> From: Sue Stevens <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:58 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: hyphenated words between pages.
>
> Well, you know, I don’t get it. Some things we are allowed tochange, even
> though we are told we cannot tamper with books as published; whereas, if we
> see a scanno and it is in the print book, we cannot change it. To me, that
> doesn’t sound logical. Why are we allowed to change hyphenated words? Don’t
> get me wrong; I have always done that, but I still don’t see the logic.
>
> Sue S.
>
>
> From: Jamie Yates, CPhT
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:19 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: hyphenated words between pages.
>
> I see it all the time when scanning books. Just because word processors don't
> do it, doesn't mean books don't do it.
>
>
>
> --
> Jamie in Michigan
>
> Currently Reading: Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell
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>
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