[bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Downloaded My First Book for Validation
- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:06:50 -0500
Good luck! If it does turn out that you can't easily figure out some of the
errors and choose to rescan it, just reject the copy you have. If you have to
rescan it, you might as well go ahead and submit your own copy, rather than
letting the original submitter get the full credit for all your work. Take care.
Julie Morales
Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him.
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:04 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Just Downloaded My First Book for Validation
I just downloaded my first book for validation. It's _In The Ruins_ by Kate
Elliott, Crown of Stars Volume 6. It was submitted on November 17, so it's
been up there for a while. The submitter put it in the Fair category, and by
the looks of things, that's about right. I've noticed quite a few errors just
in the first few pages. Also, the copyright information was not provided, so I
put that in.
I'm picking up a paper copy this afternoon from a local bookstore. If it had
been categorized as excellent, I might not have bothered, but I might have
gotten one anyway - preferably from my local library - but they didn't have
one. I would prefer to have a paper copy in case there's a scanning error that
I can't figure out. I have an Optacon, so I at least don't have to ask someone
sighted what's on the page if I run into trouble. I've been wanting to read
this book since it came out last August, though, so I'm going to read right
through it.
However, if the errors are too many and too egregious, I just may scan the
whole thing in again. It might come out better - my OpenBook does a pretty
good job, especially with hardcovers and trade paperbacks. It might be more
effective timewise than trying to puzzle out garbled text. Hopefully that
won't be necessary.
I'm a little nervous, this being my first book and all. I hope I do things
correctly.
By the way, is there a keyboard shortcut for the Copyright symbol? I just
used alt-169 at the beginning of the book where it's supposed to be, but I was
wondering if there is a keyboard combination for that? Just curious.
I also subscribed to the volunteer discussion list. I was a little
intimidated at first by the 50 messages per day figure cited on the website,
but I figure that it may not be as bad as all that; it isn't as though I have
to read all of them.
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