[bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
- From: "Jackie M." <xercon@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:09:43 -0700
To add my two cents, I use find/replace for certain names that always get
screwed up: I am reading a book by a Japanese author, and the intro.
discusses his life, repeating his name every sentence or two. There were
several aberrations of the name, so I searched for each aberration,
replacing it with the correct name. I do that if the type of mistake is
pretty consistent. Each time I come upon a new aberration, I search for it
and replace it with the correct name. I don't tend to use the
search/replace if I could be replacing the wrong things.
- Jackie McCraw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:15 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
> Mike, it is also possible to validate using programs such as Word,
WordPad,
> NotePad, etc. I have a very old version of OpenBook which I find way too
> cumbersome to use for validation purposes, and although I now have K1000,
I
> haven't even come close to figuring out all its eccentricities to be able
to
> use it adequately.
>
> All that to say that when I validate, or when I check a book before
> submitting it for validation, I use Word. If the scan has been saved as
an
> RTF file, then you can check the page integrity by using the "page down"
> command, "control-page down" to move from page to page. This will put you
on
> the first line of each page which could be either a page number (which
> really makes it easy), or the junk header plus page number, which puts you
> in place to remove the junk header and leave in the page number. If the
> page numbers and/or book title/author's name appear as footers, then use
the
> "page down" command to put you at the top of the next page and then arrow
up
> a couple of times to find the footer, which will put you in place to check
> the page number and/or strip out the junk footer. While it takes a while
to
> write this process out, once you get into the rhythm of checking this, it
> really goes very quickly.
>
> You can also use spell check to check for errors. You can use the find
> feature to locate consistent errors you've noticed, such as searching for
> forward slashes that should be I's, or bam that really should be barn, or
> the presence of junk characters such as at-signs or
> less-thann's/greater-than's. If you're really, really careful, you can
use
> the find and replace to fix some of these things, but then you run the
risk
> of removing legitimate uses of some of these symbols.
>
> If you're interested in trying your hand at validation, just jump in and
try
> it. If you don't find yourself up to the task of the particular book
you've
> selected, then you can always release it and someone else will pick it up.
> It is indeed tedious work, but an essential part of the process.
>
> Peace and Hope,
>
> Donna
>
>
>
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