[bksvol-discuss] Re: submit better copy
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:40:37 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Jake. That's what I thought. I admit that I
don't read posts that seem to have information that
would not relate to what I do, but that is the
impressson I'd gained from what I did read about
K1000's ranking--which might explain why some books
are rated Excellent or good and really aren't. smile
and sigh
Cindy
--- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy,
>
> As we've discussed before, Kurzweil 1000 merely has
> a few more approaches to
> using a standard spell checker than does other
> programs. Rank Spelling for
> instance, simply orders the words the spell checker
> finds by the number of
> times they occur in the document. There's really
> nothing else different
> about the feature.
>
> So, no, no, no, and no, Kurzweil won't find words
> that are split, words that
> are missing, and will not catch numbers in the place
> of the letter I when it
> stands alone (ie it's the pronoun, but it would find
> something like m1ddle).
>
> The quality rater BookShare users is very similar,
> and won't catch any of
> those mistakes either. One of the reasons books get
> a higher quality rating
> than they might otherwise deserve. Validators should
> be aware of this and if
> the book contains several areas that have these
> types of mistakes, should
> adjust the rating accordingly. Or, if numerous
> enough, ask themselves why
> they are accepting the book in its current
> condition.
>
> Jake
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 2:18 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submit better copy
>
>
> > Tracy,
> >
> > I definitely think it would be a good thing for
> you to
> > submit your better copy. Be sure to put a note in
> the
> > comments section that you've looked at both copies
> and
> > yours corrects errors that are still in the other
> > copy.
> >
> > I think sometimes scanners mark books as excellent
> > when they're not, perhaps because whatever they're
> > using misleads them--for example, if I understand
> > correctly, K1000 won't catch errors that are
> correctly
> > spelled but are the wrong word for the context, or
> the
> > numeral one for a capital I. Will it catch words
> that
> > are missing half if the first half is a word by
> > itself? I'm finding a lot of those in the book I'm
> > validating now, where words are hyphenated at the
> end
> > of a line but only the first part of the
> hyphenated
> > word is in the scan and it's a word, e.g., "day"
> but
> > the second part, "light" is missing, I'm
> > assuming,perhaps incorrectly, that K1000 won't
> count
> > that as an error. And what about words that are
> > missing altogether? Again, in the book I'm
> validating
> > now, there are a lot of those. Presumably the
> scanner
> > didn't hold down the book at the binding (it's
> over
> > 900 pages and heavy and would ve difficult to do)
> so
> > several words at the ends of sentences are
> missing.
> > Would K1000 give such a book a lower rating, or
> does
> > it just catch spelling errors?
> >
> > And please, no one suggest that I reject this
> book.
> > It's an interesting and worthwhile book to have in
> the
> > collection, and I'm enjoying reading it.
> Correcting as
> > I go along is no problem. I can't imagine anyone
> > rescanning it, but even if they did, it would have
> to
> > be revalidated, and I'm sure the whole process
> would
> > take longer thanit's going to take me to
> perfectit.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
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