[bookshare-discuss] Eats, Shoots and Leaves approved and uploaded.
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:18:51 -0700 (PDT)
Hi, All,
I forget who scanned this book, but whoever it was did
an excellent job. I seem to think it was Allison or
Amber, but I could be wrong.
I'm sorry it took me so long to validate it. Because I
own a copy of the book, when requests came to do books
from the library I did those first.
This book was a best-seller in England, and the
publisher of the U.S. edition elected to retain the
English spelling of words and grammatical terms, e.g.,
"stop" for our "period," , and putting the punctuation
mark generally outside of quotation marks, or, as they
are called, "inverted commas." The author writes with
humor and I found myself laughing and chuckling as
well as learning interesting facts about the origins
and uses of punctuation marks.
I think people who listen to books might have a
problem, especially in the apostrophe section. I
don't know about Braille readers. Unless you allow
your reader to read punctuation marks, which I think
would be generally annoying, or have someone read and
explain what's going on, how can you tell the
difference between d o n apostrophe t and d o n t?
Or "Leonora walked on her head, comma, a little
higher than usual vis a vis Leonora walked on comma
her head a little higher than usual." Of course with
the comma, maybe your reader would pause at the comma
and you'd be able to tell the difference.
Cindy
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