[bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:01:19 -0500
I think excellence, not perfection, should be the goal. And no, if one
index page is out of whack, a book should not be nuked. Doing a page
integrity check is always a good idea, and you can either delete those
unnumbered pages or, in the case of pages that include picture captions,
include them at the end of the book.
Jana
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From: Guido Corona
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Kenneth, fixing pagination is not rocket science. And if you still have
the original at hand you can easily insert whatever pages are missing.
Sorry, but being blind is no excuse.
G.
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"Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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In almost every book I have scanned, which is about a thousand, I have
rarely found the pagination quite that exact. First, pictures are
inserted,
sometimes on un-numbered pages. Also, some pages, such as charts and
graphs, are either un-numbered of just plain missing. Suppose I get a
two-thousand page book from a library and scan it perfectly, but miss one
index page. Do you really want that book trashed? We are not talking
about
simple issues here. We are talking about a group of people, I mean us,
who
have spent most of our lives without immediate access to current books,
however bad the form. Let's not give that up in search of perfection.
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From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 550 books in the download queue
> Search for page numbers as in 79 followed by 80 etc. until you go
through
> the book's page numbers. It sounds like a lot of work but really does
not
> take much time.
>
> E.
> At 03:55 PM 8/10/2004, you wrote:
> >I've hesitated in offering my services in validating due to my concern
> >(perhaps unwarranted) that I couldn't do the maticulous job some of yu
> >obviously do based on the books I routinely read from BookShare.
> >
> >At this point, I've not purchased any of the fancy ocr packages such as
> >k100 or Open Book which would make reviewing submissions a relative
> >breeze. In reviwing the outlined tasks involved in validating, the
> >stickler would be the one concerning making certain that the text is
> >incomplete form and no pages are mmissing. Other than reading the
entire
> >book, how would one go about this task without a program such as K100
> >which seems more and more impressive every time you folks discuss it?
> >
> >
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