[bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:43:37 -0500
Hi, Kenneth! First of all, I agree that singling out the work of one
volunteer in a public forum is inappropriate. As has already been pointed
out, it is fine and often necessary to post a message requesting that a
submitter send missing pages to a validator if possible.
We are all learning new ways to improve the quality of Bookshare. If you
can tell where those pictures begin, you may want to follow Guido's advice
to place those at the end of the actual text, unless the captions contribute
to it. Thanks for your work!
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth A. Cross
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:03 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
To begin with, Guido, I deeply regret that you find my work so shoddy as
to find it necessary to comment on it in a public forum. Having said that,
I want to point out to you that most of the eight or nine hundred books I
have on the system are as readable as most.
Having gotten that out of my system, there are some helps you can give me.
How does one maintain page integrity when twenty or thirty unnumbered pages
of pictures intervene throughout the text? Also, how does one maintain
pagination when one switches a file from Kurzweil to RTF?
The fact of the matter is that, even with version 9.1 of Kurzweil, I
generate a lot of blank pages when translating to rtf.
Finally, I don't really scan books for BookShare; I scan them for myself
and I read most of them. If BookShare doesn't want them, I'll stop
submitting them. I will, however, maintain my BookShare membership, because
I think it is an excellent service.
----- Original Message -----
From: Guido Corona
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:42 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
Kenneth, hopefully with the new patch you obtained from Kurzweil you
will no longer experience the amazing proliferation of spurious page breaks.
That should make it much easier for you to perform a page integrity check on
your books prior to submission. It is truly of the utmost importance that
you do so, because while it will take you about 10 minutes to check the
book and remove spurious pages, an perhaps an extra 15 to integrate any
missing pages, the page integration step itself -- if left to the proofing
pool -- may take several additional days of back and forth with reviewers
until it is addressed and solved.
As you can imagine, that is not effective use of anyone's time.
If you would like to receive some tips on how to perform a page
integrity check quickly and effectively, please let me know. I will be
happy to oblige, either on the list or privately.
Guido
Guido D. Corona
IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
IBM Research,
Phone: (512) 838-9735
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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"Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Just possibly, it would be best to begin by communicating, if possible,
with
the individual who submitted the book in the first place.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 1:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A plea to submitters
> Hi Pam,
> When you find these books with multiple pages missing it would be a
good
> thing to report them, either directly to the Bookshare staff or to the
list
> so that I can forward your comments to the staff. And if you report
this
to
> the list chances are that someone would be really helpful and track
down a
> copy of the book to scan the missing pages.
> Kellie
>
>
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