[bksvol-discuss] Re: proofing boooks with tables

  • From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:39:41 -0500

Always glad to help with a page (or more), but I won't commit to proofing a book that has difficult tables just because it has tables. smile. I've got to be at least interested in the book's contents to do that, or it has to be a book that someone truly needs to help them out with a medical condition or the like. Otherwise I drive myself batty reading stuff that I don't like or that is so tedious that I burn myself out. smile. 


Judy s.

Cindy wrote:

That's good to know. I'll call on you the next time I have a book with them (I 
can send you the page as an rtf file)(or I'll release the book and ask you to 
proof it smile.
Cindy

--- On Tue, 6/14/11, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofing boooks with tables
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 7:12 PM
I've proofread a lot of books with
tables, and not had any problems with them turning out. smile. I've also helped scanners and other proofreaders convert tables that didn't make much sense into a form that does, and I'm always glad to help anyone out with that. 

Using Word's table feature, like Melissa mentioned, is the
key to keeping a table intact in the text of a rtf file. Tables done that way translate very well into braille and DAISY and into XML. smile. 

Judy

Cindy wrote:

I've spent a lot of time in the past trying to proof

books with tables. Sometimes I've translated them into words
and paragraphs; recently I tried converting them to text;
(that didn't work well). Most recently I had to give up. I
found that most often the table merely illustrates what's
said in the text and isn't really necessary. In some cases I
merely said. "bar graph or table. (though tables are usually
titled in the text.

With my last 2 books I finally gave up and deleted the

tables and explained that they were merely illustrative, not
essential.

Bookshare told me that they can convert or do

something with tables, but when I uploaded the books they
were returned to me

I guess it depends on the kind and size (length, I

mean the width of the table.

Cindy
--- On Tue, 6/14/11, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: way to refer to

other books?

To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 11:23 AM
Let me second Sue on this -- I'd love
to have a book like this on Bookshare.  I

don't scan,

but if you'd be willing to try scanning it,

Charisma, I'd be

willing to proof it, as long as you keep the

images of the

pages until the proofing is done.  That way I

can get a

page image from you if I need it when proofing

tricky parts

like tables. smile.

Judy s.

Sue Stevens wrote:

Hi Charisma,

Some of us cannot hear audio books, so having

a book

on the Bard site would do us no good.  True

we are a

small group, but we appreciate it when such books

are in

Bookshare.

Sue S.


-----Original Message----- From: Charisma
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:55 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] way to refer to

other

books?

I was looking to see if Bookshare had a copy

of this

book because I

wanted to listen to it.
I checked the publisher and the site and etc

and it is

not there. So I

was about to scan it when I remembered that I

had

listened to it

initially through NLS/BARD. Since they have it

I am

not going to scan

it.

But I wish there was a way to refer folks to a

place

that has a thing

when Bookshare does not. It looks as if the

brain

injury books on

Bookshare are regarding pediatric injuries

only, but

this one is for

any age.

IS there a way? This has been an extremely

helpful

book to me and at

least one of my doctors. If it was not so

tricky with

tables and all I

would go ahead and push through if it was not

available anywhere else.

Charisma
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