[bookshare-discuss] "Wolves of the Calla" problem
- From: "boomerdad" <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:54:11 -0800
Okay, this is getting ridiculous.
You all may remember my difficulty with Wizard and Glass, wherein a page of
text was completely illegible and the whole book was double-spaced. So I
simply submitted my own scan of the book. But now, I've found an even greater
travesty with Wolves of the Calla, the next book in the series.
It isn't even halfway complete.
I've been reading the book and realized I skipped a page from the book when I
scanned it, and having lent the book to a friend, I thought "Well, that's okay,
Bookshare will come to my rescue!" I downloaded the book, opened it, and tried
to find my page--around page 504. Imagine my frustration to find that the book
only went up to OpenBook page 218. I'm not sure what printed page that equals,
because I didn't bother to look ... but I did make sure it wasn't simply a case
of a whoooole lot of material being on each page. It wasn't. I'd say there
are no more than 300 of the 700+-page book in the bookshare file. How in the
name of all the gods who do and don't exist did this get past validation?
I'm sure glad I went ahead and bought the book, because if I'd relied on
Bookshare I would've been extremely ticked off. Imagine getting 300 pages into
a story only to learn that there are 400 pages to go and you can't finish it!
Sheesh! As it is, I'm simply going to have to stop reading for a few days till
I get in touch with my friend and get the book back.
I can resubmit my copy of the book, but I gotta tell ya, it isn't in Bookshare
shape, because I knew the book was already on Bookshare so I didn't do what I
normally do when I scan books for Bookshare--save the title page and page
numbers and such. I can re-scan the title page, but I am *not* going page by
page and re-inserting page numbers. <Grin>
Well, thanks for listening to me vent. I guess if I hope to accomplish
anything by this message besides venting, it's to ensure that people be careful
when validating books. I read elsewhere on this list there's a back-log of
books to be validated, and I just would caution people to not be so quick to
validate that things get ... well ... sloppy. I appreciate the time and effort
people take to volunteer chunks of their lives to validating books, so please
don't take the caution as a blast of any kind ... but you must admit, 400
missing pages is a bit ... peeving.
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