[bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
- From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:55:53 -0600
Amen! I agree with you wholeheartedly. Thanks for your support on my
behalf!
Louise
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From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: .txt and .rtf
> Marissa,
> Since when is it necessary to have page breaks in a file as a
qualification for acceptance? I understand how this is more important for
text books and certain other nonfiction titles, and also that it is
desirable for even a
> novel. But bookshare already has a ton of txt file books that are not
accurately paginated. If the books that Louise has are of good or excellent
quality, why can't they be submitted as is? Readability, completeness
> and, for legal reasons, presence of author title copyright info, would
seem to be the over-arching criteria, not whether or not the thing started
life as a text file. There are right now, on the step one page, a bunch of
txt
> files. Are we suppose to reject them because the probability is high that
their pagination is not the same as the original?
> Put succinctly, why can't Louise just submit these books as is as has been
done by others in the past and never mind the page breaks? I'd sooner have
a really good quality text and no page breaks at all than a
> lesser quality text whose page breaks are in tact. I'm not saying its the
most desired state. But what I'm hearing is that she should wait until
you've solved the page break problem before submitting these files.
> mary
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