I do read through every book I scan and it is pretty time consuming. I
am glad that you get high quality scans even if you don't read through
what you are scanning, but if I tried that very few of my scans would
get into the collection. It is very frequent that I have to scan a page
several times before it is good enough that I feel like someone who does
not have the book on hand could proof it. There are a lot of preproofing
tasks that I don't do. That has a lot to do with my deciding that my
niche is scanning rather than proofing. But if I was proofreading and
found myself looking at the kind of scan that I would do without
preproofing I would reject it.
On 11/5/2017 3:27 PM, Evan Reese wrote:
Hmmm, scanning certainly takes less time than proofing, unless I read through every book I scan, which I don't.
As for all the PQ books coming in, there are definitely a great many of them; but I've got a heck of a lot of books here that Bookshare doesn't have, from publishers that are not yet giving their books to Bookshare, three that I'm working on right now are from this year, so they're not just older books.
Then again, I enjoy scanning. I can listen to things while I'm doing it, so it's not as though my scanning time is taken from other things. I'm happy to say that I'm certainly not worried about running out of books to scan for Bookshare.
It is true that there are a lot of rules for proofers. That's a good thing. Those of us who've been around for a while, not just as volunteer scanners and proofreaders but as members who download books, know what it's like to get books that were sloppily proofed, or (apparently), not proofed at all, and it's not a pleasant experience. So yes, there are a lot of rules for proofers, as there should be.
I can scan most books to quite a high quality, but there is no substitute for good proofreading and high quality standards for the benefit of readers who deserve a good reading experience.
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: Patti Johnson
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2017 3:08 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Three asterisks question
Well I don't have the patience to scan; takes too long; and I used to
proof but that got too bogged down too with rules and regs, so I
quit.
Now that we are getting so much publisher quality stuff, I don't see
the need to proof any more.
Patti
On 11/5/17, Sharon <mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To which I cannot subscribe. Some issue with internet provider!
Also, I don't think I ever knew the difference between this list, and the
volunteer list to which I cannot subscribe!
Thanks for clarifying something I always wondered about.
Sharon
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Loran Bailey [mailto:rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2017 2:38 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sharon
Subject: Re: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Three asterisks question
Let me suggest that this topic really belongs on the volunteer list, not the
Bookshare general discussion list.
On 11/5/2017 5:55 AM, Sharon wrote:
Thanks, as I just mostly scan and do not proof books, I only wanted an
answer to that one question.
I just cannot keep up with all the requirements for proofreading. Just
try to get a perfect scan.
Sharon
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Parsons [mailto:akp@sero.email]
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2017 5:51 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Three asterisks question
Hi all,
Sharon, I believe that this question is answered in the proofer's
manual, however, I will say that if you place three contiguous stars
and hit 'enter', Word, at least, will create a line of stars which is
not what you want here. You want to put spaces between each star.
Ann P.
Original message:
If I am to separate the text from the footnotes should the line look
like this or like this?
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