[bookshare-discuss] Re: a question about page numbering
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:20:13 -0700 (PDT)
Boomerad (and Dad, are we talking Baby Boomer, that
you are one and also a dad or that you are the father
of one, or that you have a child who listens to a boom
box all the time? grin)
It depends on what kind of a file you're reading. For
some reason, some books that are scanned on some kinds
of program -- I'm not sure if it's Kurzweil or what --
have a set of page numbers separate from the books.
When books are scanned, the preferable thing it to
convert them to rtf to submit. I've fixed at least
two, maybe three, book files in which extra numbers
that did follow a sequential order bore no
relationship to the actual page numbers of the book;
they were maybe 10 or 15 numbers ahead of the actual
number. Also, those page numbers appeared anywhere --
in the middle of sentences, on a separate line --
anywhere. Again, if you have a book like this from the
collection, and it disturbs your reading, tell Jesse
and he can arrange to have it fixed or pulled,
depending on how bad the rest of it is. If you're
attempting to validate it and it's too hard to tell
which page numbers are real and which are spurious (is
that the right word?) release it and let someone else
take care of it.
Cindy
--- boomerdad <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a question I have that isn't born out of
> frustration so much as mere curiosity.
> Why do Bookshare books have two sets of page
> numbers? I understand one is the actual page number
> of a page of a book, provided the submitter kept
> those intact. But what are the other page numbers,
> and why are they there? If I'm submitting a work of
> fiction where the page number isn't going to be a
> necessity for finding information (e.g. from an
> index), can I not include the book's page numbers,
> since these other numbers appear in the book?
>
>
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