[bksvol-discuss] Re: text format submissions
- From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:43:29 -0600
Quick question, do you know if they have page breaks? If they do, I see
absolutely no problem. If not, well, they're not rejecting books without page
breaks until March. And anyway, there areways to go about putting page breaks
into txt files with different text editors... so I say go ahead and submit
them!
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Miller
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: text format submissions
I have several hundred books that are in text form. They are in TXT format
because I scanned them and then converted them in order to download them to my
Road Runner device more easily, which only accepted text files. Then my
computer crashed, so I lost the original scans, but I had the text files on zip
disks.
This collection of mine is rather unique, containing hundreds of history
monographys, novels, travel books, and a variety of titles that are not on
bookshare.
As a Ph.D history student I read constantly, and have a pretty massive
collection.
So, do we want to toss out this resource because they are in text files?
I have the books, so it is no skin off my nose, but what about everyone else?
Brian Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Leonardi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] text format submissions
Hi, all.
Let me start by saying that I need to say something but I'm a bit
frustrated so please don't think me rude. The fact of the matter is that
bookshare does indeed allow text format submissions. Not all txt formatted
files have the page breaks missing... I have validated a few that did have page
breaks. If you have a problem validating txt files, don't do it. It's very
simple. Until bookshare states that txt files will no longer be accepted, we
as validators need to deal with it. I don't think it's right to come down on
submitters for using the txt format. I'm not a submitter so I don't know why
people use this format, but they must have a reason. We should be grateful
that these submitters are taking the time to bother scanning books for us to
read. Personally, I appreciate the time they take to submit... even if some of
them are using txt format.
Lisa
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