[bksvol-discuss] Re: priorities and time line for accomplishing them
- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:39:16 -0600
Sloppy for readers? Isn't knowing the book pages part of the fact that these
books are books, after all and not just text documentation? :) Page numbers
will help in circumstances where not having them could be a hindrance,
suppose I wanted someone to find such and such on page 125, and with the
page numbers quite visible I can go to that page and have a sighted person
go right to the same page and find x y and z, or even d e and f later on in
the same chapter. Then, there is text books, outlines, etc. etc.
The thing which can be annoying is the breaking of words over page breaks
which is the norm in the book I just scanned and am proofing right now, and
not really sure what to do about that, but the author or printer constructed
it in that way so, visually, or with a scanner, it seems that the way it is
intended to look so ... though maybe, the word, predictable, as predict
95
(page break
able is the norm and not the exception, in this book, that is.
Curtis Delzer
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From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: priorities and time line for accomplishing
them
The trouble with the header footer stripper situation is two fold.
First, it adds trouble for volunteers attempting to preserve page
numbers and page breaks, chapter titles and so forth. Second, the
presence of titles and headers or footers in books in the collection
simply make the resulting product seem sloppy to the reader.
I do understand about time lines associated with grants. I fully
support bookshare. I have always done so. The length of time for
fixing of some of these basic issues is what makes me speak up. Many
many things have simply gone on for a long long time.
E.
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