Sometime around 2008 to 2010, as I recall. I would have ignored it in a
book from the first few years, but didn't expect to see it in a more
recent scan.
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On 3/21/2016 2:40 AM, Susan Lumpkin wrote:
How long ago was that book scanned and/or proofed Judy? I can’t believe no one caught that error? Wow!
Susan
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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] painful scanno of the week
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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