[bksvol-discuss] Re: **text Quality**
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:44:26 -0500
Hi, Louise! Yes, if this is a dialect issue, you will need to leave the
book as is. However, as Guido said, a change in your brightness setting
should fix it if it's an OCR error.
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: **text Quality**
> speaking of text quality, how do you handle a book in which the word you
> appears as a y and an apostrophe, or the word you're appears as y'r or
the
> word to appears as the letter t and an apostrophe. This may be fine with
a
> Braille display, but it's very annoying with speech. As an example:
>
> Are y' going t' the store today?
>
> I realize this is a form of dialect and assume it should be left as is, is
> this correct? If it was me, I would put the letter a after the y' and
the
> t', which would make it easier to listen to, but that would change the
book,
> which I assume is a no-no. Louise
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:02 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: **text Quality**
>
>
> > At 10:49 PM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
> >
> > > >This without doubt is my biggest issue with bookshare. The "fair
> rating."
> > > >In my experience, anything marked fair is usually almost unreadable.
> >
> > I agree with the overall sentiment of what you are saying, but there are
> > always exceptions to any rule.
> > Some books are still rated fair as a result of the bug that existed in
the
> > Bookshare rating system a while back;
> > Some books are rated fair because of numerous foreign language words,
and
> a
> > poor job by the person who edited the submission in not catching this
and
> > boosting the rating;
> > Some are rated fair because the headers and footers didn't scan well and
> > weren't stripped out, but the text may deserve a good rating;
> > Some books may have instances of hand written letters inserted which may
> > not seriously impact the overall readability of the book;
> > Some books may be accurate reflections of the written text, but by
todays
> > standards of spelling and grammar may get a fair rating;
> > and, some books may be so old and rare that you can't find them
elsewhere,
> > but you can only get a fair rating out of them.
> >
> > Perhaps Bookshare should also have a poor rating for the really bad
scans,
> > but where the books may still have some redeeming qualities.
> >
> > > >To the people who say, "having the book is better then no book at
all,"
> I
> > > >say, you are outright wrong!!"
> > >
> > >I have to say, that 1 word "wrong", was probably the only reason I
> decided
> > >to respond to this message.
> > As the saying goes, "different strokes for different folks." I may like
> > single malt scotch, while you may not, but this doesn't make you
> > wrong. It's called a different opinion.
> > While I may not read books with a fair rating often, there have been
> > occasions where I have because they may have been the only copy I could
> > find available.
> > Personally, I hate braille, and wouldn't even consider reading anything
> > longer than a label in that form; likewise, I no longer listen to tape
> > books as I can kill a cassette player probably quicker then anyone you
> have
> > ever met.
> > It also used to drive me crazy trying to coax a tape along that wasn't
> > cooperating, or getting to tape 4, of a 6 tape set only to find it was
> useless.
> >
> > Ultimately, I would like to see Bookshare start a program aimed at
> > improving the quality of the collection. Maybe have a separate download
> > section for the volunteers where the books rated fair could be rescanned
> to
> > improve the quality.
> >
> > In closing, I have to add, that after using a KRM model 400 for years,
> even
> > some of the books rated fair on Bookshare are an improvement.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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