I do actually use the page numbers for searching if the Icon loses my place in a book which it does from time to time I search for the page number. Comes in quite handy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Ring" <ring2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 3:51 PM Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Bookshare on the Icon
Oh, it's not that bad! It will build your listening skills! (evil grin) -----Original Message----- From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Esak Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:29 AM To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Bookshare on the Icon Oh, thank God. Great the NLS books will be SO much better than.... Yes, it is the heading on each page of many books that is so annoying. Combined with the page number... on short books it is really a distraction. I would love to be able to teach myself to ignore this like others say they do. I not only can't ignore it... I localize on it... so it is practically the only thing I hear... sort of waiting for it to come around each time. Stupid, huh? John-----Original Message----- From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icon-discuss- bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LARRY SKUTCHAN Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 8:52 AM To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Bookshare on the Icon I think the reason you're seeing this kind of thing on Bookshare is that people just scan in the books, and that information is often at the top or bottom of each page of the printed book. Some people take the time to clean these and others don't. The books from NLS are not like this. >>> john@xxxxxxxxx Monday, October 22, 2007 5:54:32 PM >>> Hi, I've been a member of Bookshare.org for about 5 years and read dozens and dozens of books from their site. However, I do it a completely stupid way... just learned this way from someone and never changed. I choose to convert the book to HTML and then I go through the downloaded book in some editor, usually Word and delete all the garbage like page numbers and chapter and page headings, etc. I was so thrilled to see how easy the Icon retrieves books from Bookshare and was really excited to listen for the first time to them in Daisy format. Much to my dismay, there is still all that junk in them. The page number is read about every minute, and the page headings etc., etc. Doeseverybodyusing Daisy books from Bookshare just put up with all this detritis?Itis so distracting and takes so much away from the book itself because itaddsso much garbage. Please... please tell me I'm doing it a completely stupid and uninformed way and there is some simple little thing I'm doing or notdoing that will make the page numbers and such either go away or never be there in thefirstplace. This dragging the book through to HTMNL and then globallyremovingas much stuff as I can manually is so much of a drag that it makes it almost completely counter productive to read books from Bookshare. I would have thought a Daisy book would not have this stuff in it. Am I just hopig for too much? And please, no matter what... even if it's true... don't tell me that the new NLS books will be this way, too. I'll jump off a cliff. John
