[bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
- From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:23:50 -0500
Hi Boomerdad,
Once in a while I get a download that for all practical purposes seems to
have downloaded fine, but when it is unpacked it has been cut off. I've
also found that in most instances if I go back and redownload, it turns out
fine the second time. I attribute this to gremlins.
Dave
At 01:35 AM 12/15/2004, you wrote:
>Hmm. Maybe I'll try re-downloading it. ... Well, if it does turn out I did
>something ... er ... not befitting one of my intelligence ... I shall
>retract any and all venting with so much sheepishness as to elicit bleating
>for miles around. ...
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:48 PM
>Subject: [other] [bookshare-discuss] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
>
>
> > Boomerdad,
> >
> > I'm not sure what has happened when you downloaded this book. But I
> > downloaded it a few months ago and was able to read it in its entirety.
> > There may have been a few garbled words here and there but the book was
> > complete.
> >
> > Lisa
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "boomerdad" <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:54 AM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] "Wolves of the Calla" problem
> >
> >
> >> 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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