[bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
- From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:57:31 -0700
Hi Jake,
Yeah, I do try to read some instructions. Being new here what are most
people using for software, scanners?
I did the 9.0.2 upgrade for Kurzweil1000 and it seems to have gotten rid of
some reference memory errors I was getting.
Kaitlyn
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jake Brownell
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:37 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Hey Kaitlyn,
Yes there is a section on the BookShare website that says they prefer
KES or ARK files with images. I first began submitting them in ARK format,
the OpenBook native file format and it took forever for the books to make it
through the system. I now submit in RTF form and they move much faster. I
still keep the ARK files for myself, but I don't think a better improved OCR
on them would make much difference because I do extensive editing before
submission.
I've siad this part of the website needs to be changed before when I was
confused, and this just goes to show that I'm not the only one who takes the
time to read it and then gets confused. If any of the admins out there have
a moment please look into fixing that.
Thanks,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Kaitlyn Hill <mailto:Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:56 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Hi Julie,
I believe you may be right on the short description field. I thought I read
in the guidelines for uploading to upload the book in .kes format with
images so that they could be re-ocr'ed at some point when ocr improved. Is
this not all that important? If not I can convert them to .rtf before
uploading.
Kaitlyn
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julie Morales
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:47 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Hi, Kaitlyn. First of all, if you scanned the books yourself, you might try
opening the books in Kurzweil and resaving them in .rtf format. While
Bookshare certainly does accept submitted books in .kes format, your books
might get validated faster if submitted in Rich Text Format, because more
people can access that format who don't have Kurzweil so who would otherwise
not be able to take your books. If you do choose to submit in .kes...and
even if you do decide to convert to .rtf, check the synopsis field,
primarily the short synopsis. This field gives a lot of people, including,
at one time, me, a lot of problems because if your synopsis is too long, you
get bumped back to the page where you filled in all the info and everything
looks like it's in place. The only thing missing was the title of the book
in the upload field, and there was no notice of what the exact error was, so
I had many hours of frustration with that until I finally figured out that
it was my short synopsis. Once I shortened it, it went through. Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kaitlyn Hill <mailto:Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Hello All,
I am a new member to BookShare. On your question about cutting the bindings
of books. I have a Canon duplex scanner and I go to Office depo and they
will cut the bindings off for $1. They will rebind them for $2.50. What I
found interesting is many people have this done to make it easier to read
books. This way they can lay them flat on the table.
I do have a question. I did upload one book successfully today but two
others I keep getting errors on. I have reviewed the fields and everything
appears to be correct. I am uploading them in . kes format. Any ideas?
Kaitlyn
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Estelnalissi
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:26 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Dear Julie,
Thank you for your answer about the chopper and document feeder. Is chopping
something we can try at home? Or, is it an industrial strength machine, too
expensive or practical for the single user?
Always Turning Pages,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Morales <mailto:inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:13 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
The Bookshare office has a high-speed scanner with a document feeder, so
scanning all those books is definitely a feat, but it goes much faster than
it would for most of us, and yes, they chop off the bindings so they can put
the pages through the feeder. Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: Estelnalissi <mailto:airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
Dear Carrie and List,
Excuse the silly question but do you mean you literally chop? For example,
do you slice off bindings so the pages scan better? If so, how do you do
that?
Also, can anyone suggest how to flatten a book to get the best scan? I have
so many books I hope to scan and share but some I couldn't bear to chop,
while it would be all right with others because I would know they would
actually be read more if chopped than if not.
Always turning Pages,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos <mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 36 books today
No no no, I didn't scan them all myself. There are maybe a dozen volunteers
who work at the office sometime during the week. Someone will chop up a
bunch of books, someone else will scan them, yesterday someone OCRed 30
books, so all I did was take books that needed to be submitted and submit
them. It's a group effort, really it is! Thursday I'll chop, scan and OCR
some books and then someone else will probably submit them. It's easier to
do 20-30 books at a time thru each step than go thru the whole process with
just one book.
Carrie
Allison Mervis <allisonfm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wow! And you scanned all of those yourself? I'd better get crackin! Lol!
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrie Karnos"
To: "Bookshare Vol Group"
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submitted 36 books today
> Hi all,
>
> I submitted the following books this morning:
>
> To the Manner Born by John Chaloner
> Livia or Buried Alive by Lawrence Durrell
> Women Like Us by Erica Abeel
> Fat City by Leonard Gardner
> Believing Cassandra by Alan AtKisson
> Malafrena by Ursula K. LeGuin
> The Secret by Julie Garwood
> Breach of Duty by J. A. Jance
> Three Fates by Nora Roberts
> People of the Lake by Richard Leakey
> The Last Paradise by James D. Houston
> The Phantom of M anhattan by Frederick Forsyth
> The Gorbachev Phenomenon by Moshe Lewin
> Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister by Evelyn Keyes
> Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
> Heidelberg by Wolfgang Kootz
> Skeleton Dance by Aaron Elkins
> Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
> Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
> The Music Man by Meredith Willson
> Richard Hittleman's Introduction to Yoga by Richard Hittleman
> The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
> The Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis
> Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the US by William Burnham
> Frommer's 99 England
> Moving and Living Abroad by Albright, Chu and Austin
> Designing Babies by Roger Gosden
> The Challenge of the Sea by Arthur C. Clarke
> Over His Dead Body by Leslie Glass
> The Bang Devils by Patrick Foss
> My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
> The Struggle for Democracy by Greenberg and Page
> Mental Heal th: Culture, Race and Ethnicity by the US Dept of Health and
> Human Services
>
> and some kiddie books:
> Andy and the Lion
> Mystery in the Night Woods
> Duffy and the Devil (Caldecott Medal book)
>
> In a few weeks, I'm leaving for a 3-week vacation in Europe, so I want to
> make sure you all don't run out of books while I'm gone :-)
>
> Carrie
>
> PS, there's still another 30 books waiting to be chopped, 30 waiting to
> scanned, 20 waiting to be OCRed, and 30 waiting to be submitted, in case
> anyone is interested in the backlog here at the office. And those don't
> include books from any of the contracts...
>
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