Or, if it's just too bad, with many garbled words or many garbled entire pages, reject it entirely. If you care to, announce it here and maybe someone can rescan the book. If only a word here and a word there are messed up, or maybe only one or two pages or so, maybe just rescanning those is worth it, but I've had the good fortune (yeah, right!) of getting books to validate that were just beyond that, and it would have been easier just to do it right the first time and rescan it. Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 Yahoo: julienstarsky ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 1:28 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing dashes with macros I was going to write the same thing as Kellie. Fortunately, I read more posts before responding to you, Rose. If you take an rtf file instead of a txt file, the page breaks are probably there. But as Kellie says, if you take a book you want to read, it's no big deal to correct scannos or eliminate hyphens as you read along. If you come across missing pages or pages or words that are so scrambled you can't figure them out you can ask here on the list for someone to get the book and rescan that page, or put the word on the list and have us guess what it might be. We've become very good at that. Cindy --- Kellie Hartmann <hart0421@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Rose, > Don't be discouraged--validating isn't really that > hard. Most often what I > end up doing is simply reading the book and > correcting what scanning errors > I find. All this about page breaks and line breaks > can be important, but > these are relatively rare issues. If you take on a > book to validate and > discover that it has some complicated problem that > will make it a pain in > the neck for you, you can always release the book > and pick something else. > All volunteers who validate books are really > required to do is make sure the > title, author, and copyright info are present, and > try to see if the book is > complete. > I would encourage you to see if something on the > download list interests you > and give it a try. Despite all our finicking on > here, it really isn't rocket > science, at least not usually. <grin> > Kellie > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com