[bksvol-discuss] Re: question: Re: page breaks
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:48:03 -0600
Mary, I am talking about MP3 reading, not txt reading in BC.
I am also talking about publishing standards: 'good enough for government
work' is not good enough.
G.
Guido Dante Corona
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IBM Research,
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: question: Re: page breaks
I also read with the BC and K1000 and am all too familiar with the fall
asleep while reading phenomenon. But I still don't see the problem in as
sserious terms as you. The bc, for instance, has what it thinks of as page
navigation, but its notion of page does not correspond necessarily to the
real thing. You can still navigate by what it arbitrarily thinks of as
pages and find that place where you fell asleep. So the point is that you
can
navigate by chunks and find the place, whether those chunks correspond to
the actual printed pages or not. If the only option were fast rewind, that
would indeed be tedious. But its not the only option.
The issue here, it seems, is that you are willing to make the text
unavailable to the people who can find ways that work for them with
respect to dealing with the text, because you'd reject all such
unpaginated texts out
of hand. I'm all for some sort of notation telling people up front that
this particular book has no page breaks. But I can't see depriving people
of readable texts because the page breaks are missing.
It seems like a wild distortion of priorities to allow for texts with
garbled passages, which nobody can make sense of, no matter their skill at
navigating, while at the same time, making an immutable standard, page
breaks, without which, a text, no matter how excellently readable, may not
enter into the collection.
Mary
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