[bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:47:10 -0500
Lisa,
Were you the original submitter? If you were, you may wish to resubmit.
Whether you are or not, I would recommend that you don't offer to send files
to individuals on this list or others. It's a copyright violation. We
don't wanna get bookshare into trouble.
Pratik
Pratik Patel
Interim Director
Office of Special Services
Queens College
Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
The City University of New York
ppatel@xxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Leonardi [mailto:lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:16 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: "Wolves of the Calla" problem
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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
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