I'm not sure I understand? I read plenty of bookshare books and a little page number never has distracted me. It just says 11 or 311 or whatever. It is not a continuous string of mess just a little ole number. Am I misssing something? or am I more tallerant than I ever realized. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Esak" <john@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "icond" <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 5:54 PM Subject: [icon-discuss] Bookshare on the Icon
Hi, I've been a member of Bookshare.org for about 5 years and read dozens anddozens 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 Bookshareand 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 isread about every minute, and the page headings etc., etc. Does everybodyusing Daisy books from Bookshare just put up with all this detritis? It isso distracting and takes so much away from the book itself because it adds so 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 not doing that will makethe page numbers and such either go away or never be there in the first place. This dragging the book through to HTMNL and then globally removingas much stuff as I can manually is so much of a drag that it makes it almostcompletely counter productive to read books from Bookshare.I would have thought a Daisy book would not have this stuff in it. Am I justhopig 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