[bksvol-discuss] Re: Ark books on download list
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Lori. You answered a couple of my questions. I am sorry I didn't finish
reading all the posts before getting so defensive and posting myself.
My apologies everyone.
Cindy
--- On Fri, 8/15/08, Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Ark books on download list
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 15, 2008, 4:52 PM
> If the person who submitted the book still has the .ark
> file, the submitter
> could simply resubmit the book in .rtf format.
>
> I was very happy to validate .ark books and Mike and I did
> a number of them.
>
> However, there is one book there that has no page showing
> the title and
> author and I don't feel comfortable adding them. There
> is another book with
> no page showing the authors (although the authors are
> listed with the
> stories). I saw the authors of that book listed in
> different ways in
> different sources and don'tfeel comfortable determining
> how the authors
> should be listed on a title page.
>
> Beyond that some of the books are far too violent for me to
> validate, and
> there are issues regarding a coupld of the other books that
> I don't want to
> chat about.
>
> But suffice it to say that some of the remaining .ark books
> do need work.
>
> Personally, I would recommend that Carrie contact the
> submitters of those
> books to see if they can be resubmitted in .rtf format.
>
> I have spent this whole week validating a rather tedious
> book on
> spirituality and have come upon a chart that is a mangled
> mess (after
> reading through 175 pages and adding a page break every
> other page, so I
> can't face an .ark file that would need a lot of work
> for a while.
>
> Cat Lover Lori who has a long history validating .ark files
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laura Ann"
> <agape.wellness.massage@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:38 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Ark books on download list
>
>
> > Cindy,
> > That isn't right....to reject then resubmit if
> you do that it takes away
> > the work the scanner did.
> > Maybe the bookshare staff will convert it for you if
> you want to validate
> > one of them.
> >
> > Laura Ann
> > At 01:17 AM 8/15/2008, you wrote:
> >>I was looking at the end of the download list and I
> see there are ARK book
> >>that have been there for a long time--at least one
> since 2007. If no one
> >>who has ark is interested in converting them to rtf
> and validating them,
> >>can someone download them, reject them, convert
> them to rtf and resubmit
> >>them? Or can someone at bookshare notify the
> submitter to submit them as
> >>rtf? I only opened one not noticing it was ark and
> the submitter had a
> >>note that it was rejected and she didn't know
> why because it was perfect.
> >>
> >>Cindy
> >>
> >>***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE
> BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS
> >>AVAILABLE AT
> >>http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
> >>http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
> >>http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm
> >>
> >>A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS
> AVAILABLE AT
> >>http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
> >>http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
> >>
> >>Jake's site for useful links:
> http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
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