If you download it again, and it still doesn't work, let me know and I'll send you my complete file off-list. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "boomerdad" <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:35 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem > 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. > >> > >> > >> > > > > >