[bookshare-discuss] Notice - releasing The Postcard - by Beverly Lewis back to Step 1
- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:48:10 -0600
Thanks to you folks on your replies about the book The Postcard.
And especially, a hearty congratulations and my compliments on finding the
Dickenson quote. That was neat to get. I knew you could do it! <g>
But as I worked on the book, I found there were really just too many
scanning errors, to where I felt like I could not edit with any certainty.
I would personally not like to try and read this book in the collection when
significant text would be sacrificed.
I got to feeling it would just be better to just get a copy and scan it all
over using better OCR settings or whatever and not accept this level of
errors before submitting.
I did substantial stuff like page numbers and found a few chapter headings
on the file, but I am going to go ahead and release the book. If someone
wants my RTF copy to continue what I did so far, maybe that could be
something I could send up, to at least not have to do that all over again.
But then, I'm not sure if that iw within acceptable policy or not. Maybe
someone on the list can say for sure.
But I am going to go ahead and release the book back to Step 1.
I did get hooked in enough to know it is a book I would like to read. Lewis
seems to have a real knack for storytelling.
Thanks.
I'll hope to finish the next book I try to validate.
This is my first release.
Kind of like fishing, huh? Catch and release.
Live on, Kilgore Trout! <g>
(any Vonnegut fans on the list?)
Rik
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Boozer [mailto:keboozer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:17 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Save - [bookshare-discuss] Re: The Postcard - by Beverly Lewis
Dear Rik,
I found the poem at www. bartleby.com. Here it is in is entirety for your
reading pleasure. The first four lines will help you to validate your
book. I am looking forward to reading The Postcard.
Take care,
Kevin Boozer
It's All I Have To Bring Today
It's all I have to bring to-day, This, and my heart beside, This, and my
heart, and all the fields, And all the meadows wide. Be sure you count,
should I forget,-- Some one the sum could tell,-- This, and my heart, and
all the bees Which in the clover dwell.
Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Okay, here is one for you very literate and poetic types
Any real good Emily Dickenson fans?
English lit teachers?
This quote heads up that book The Postcard book by Beverly Lewis
that I'm
trying to validate.
And given that the OpenBook version was not produced in Exact View,
I have
not really a way I can think of to come up with the correction. And
since
the character uses this Dickenson in the "postcard" it just might be
a nice
thing to know if the possible future Bookshare reader downloads the
book!
So, maybe think of it as your chance on the Weakest Link, or
Jeopardy or
something!
Here is the text I have ....
all S7 naue io oring today,
IJnis, and mu Aeart oeside,
Unis, and ma £eart, and all t£e fields,
And all tne meadows wide
Emily Dickinson (circa 1858)
Note: I did a Google and got to Poets.org where you can search, but
I
didn't on quick try have success. Good luck! And thanks!
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