Wonderful! They sound like fun so I'll take them and proof I suspect the
main problem mght be formatting but I can do spell check and pagination
check and don't have to worry that the print book might be different;
book share has made so much of the fact that our books have to be exactly
like print book that I as wary smile
Cindy Now first to finish 2 I have; also I've offered to fis jare's bok
thhat was rejected if he can send me the copy he scanned or at lest tell me
whether it was paperback or somthing else; so I have lots to do when I've
finished Men of Salt and the writing a novel ... Hopefully I'll live l ong
enough; I'll be 83 next week, but except for joint pain and headaches (
prescriptions make them go away
I'm in excellent health and my father lived into is mid 90's; (I reallt
don't want to live that long but having bokshare work too do gives me the
incentive and my husband wants me to stick around; smile
Cindy
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:33 AM Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Cindy, blind volunteers proof without a print copy all the time. It is a
matter of knowing what kind of scanning errors are likely, knowing how the
language works, knowing what kind of characters might be in the book for
finding deliberate misspellings to affect an accent and so forth. I suppose
there might be an occasional error in the print copy that might be
misinterpreted as a scanning error, but that would be rare because, like I
said, certain scanning errors are more likely. It is entirely possible to
proof without a print copy. Then if something comes up that one is really
confused about it can often be worked out by consulting Google Books or
just by Googling the phrases around the questionable passage.
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J.K. Rowling
“ I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for
believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! ”
― J.K. Rowling
On 12/13/2018 2:12 AM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
Deborah, I did what you said and got the address of the person I
contacted; if one can't get a print book for comparison can we just proof
without it as best as we can? I wouldn't need a print book to fix
formatting but there's no guarantee spelling, grammar, punctuation would
be identical to print book; these are wish list books and I'd like to see
them in the collection and Ithnk I'd have fun proofing them.
Cindy
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