Oh, thank you. I needed a great laugh. ROTFL
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From: Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:04 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: painful scanno of the week
Of the various funny scannos I have seen discussed none of them beats the one
that came up for me once. Don't worry. I caught it and corrected it. It was in
my scan of Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. There was a sentence that began,
"Parts of the far left become indistinguishable from the far right ...." The P
in Parts scanned as an F.
On 3/21/2016 2:28 AM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
I'm surprised. I can't imagine how Taft would become tail-- do tees
become els? and the letter f an i? Idon't think I've seen though conversions
elsewhere. smile
CIndy
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Sometimes when I'm proofreading I run into a scanno that just makes me
wince. This is one that made it through into the collection. The scanner didn't
catch it, or the proofreader, in a book I'm reading that is in the Bookshare
collectionwith a big section in it about the presidency of William Howard Taft.
Throughout the entire section devoted to him, and throughout the entire book,
the name "Taft" translated as "Tail."
Seriously? Tail? Is it that unusual to know that the name of the
president that the book is partially about was Taft, not Tail?
Yeah, it'll get a quality report. It's an older scan, but not that old
that it shouldn't have been caught by the scanner, by the proofreader, or by
whoever on the staff looked at it back then to make sure it was OK before
approving it for the collection.
This type of scanno kind of hurts my soul because of the impression it
must make when a member reads it. I know it didn't make a good impression on
me. Most scanners and proofreaders put a whole lot of effort into making high
quality books for everyone to read, but this one--ouch. It's a pretty good
example, though, of what can happen when there's a scanno that a spellchecker
just isn't going to catch.
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Judy s.
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