[bksvol-discuss] Re: released book

  • From: The Pardees <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:48:34 -0400

I would reject the book. Probably the book was not pressed hard enough
against the scanner glass. This problem gets worse near the center of the
book.  

Jim



At 09:40 AM 6/19/04 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I am giving up editing  the book  titled "The klone and I." The text itself
>is quite good enough but for some reason there are much too much missing
>words in mid sentences. I tried filling in with words where they are
>obviously needed, words such simple words as "the, was, he, she, to, it,
>and, they, etcetera. I was putting hundreds of words when I realize it was
>getting out of hand. The needed words were also getting less simple and even
>if I could guess a word that would fit snugly inside a sentence, I could
>never be sure that was what the author had used. This problem is severe only
>around the middle of the book so there is a chance the scanner didn't
>noticed and just submitted the book as excellent. Too bad. I thought the
>book quite interesting. My question is, do I just release or reject the
>book?
>
>And just a matter of curiosity, why would there be so much missing words in
>a text when the words around elsewhere is good? Anybody has a thought?
>
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