E., who wrote that book? The title sounds interesting. Sue S., who hates being out of the validation pool. ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 6:31 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] we borrow the earth I am validating this fascinating book. It started out with 96% of the words spelled correctly. I have it up to just under 99% with a lot of assistance from rank spelling. I have a suggestion for a rank spelling feature or add on. When I notice a pattern in words where a whole group are listed as rank spelling errors I could input a letter substitution to the utility and try out the results in a "read word in context box" before finally accepting the letter substitution. In this book v is often scanned as u resulting in inuite uisit uent preuent auailable and so on. Use of a tool such as this might also include the ability to bring together adjacent miss-recognized word fragments as in "part icularly". Again we would want a context checker box before final acceptance of the letter substitutions or space removal for word fragments. Also, we really should put a floor on what is submittable or put a strange responsibility on the step 2 validators. We are getting back to what to do with truly poorly scanned stuff here. Could there be some kind of screening before all scans are put on the step 1 page or is that just too politically incorrect? E.