[bksvol-discuss] Re: Desiree
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:07:15 -0500
Desiree: the definitive guide to my scan. lol
I have to admit that I wouldn't like all my effort to go to waste, but then
no one else does either. :-)
I did scan with French and English character recognition, so the accented
characters will almost always be correct. Noone needs a bunch of 6's all
over the place, and that is a guaranteed occurrence with only English OCR
on.
You won't have to delete gobs of junk characters, or fix linebreaks either,
because I can't stand that kind of mess and make sure it either doesn't
happen or is illiminated. There also will be no missing pages unless I find
them and tell you about them, and if there is I must have put a few extra
ins somewhere, because the print page numbers and Kurzweil defined pages
match up. Mostly what you will find is short words missing completely, when
I wasn't sure what they were, and messed up names, when I couldn't figure
out which OCR rendition was correct.
Sorry but I took out the really funny things like:
"I wanted to ask if Julie, the children and I might drive to Malmaison in
your carnage," and "We bathe oftener than other people because Papa had very
modem ideas."
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Desiree
> At least it's not in German. I was surprised to see
> from the copyright page that the book is a translation
> from German.
>
> Don't worry about the French words. I'll fix those
> when I validate.
>
> Cindy
>
> Sarah, Louise's scan is a paperback, so the pagination
> won't be the same as yours.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > No I haven't submited it yet, and probably won't for
> > a couple of days. I
> > have about 200 pages left to read, and since I have
> > read the book before I
> > was strange and didn't read in order, so they are
> > the pages in the middle of
> > the book.
> > Did you scan with French and English character
> > recognition? Maybe if you
> > submit your copy I could look at it a bit and
> > compare.
> >
> > Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> > curious entity at earthlink dot net
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:15 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Desiree
> >
> >
> > > I'll look at my scanned copy of Desiree as soon as
> > I get a chance. Have
> > you
> > > actually submitted your copy yet or are you just
> > going through it before
> > > it's submitted? Please advise. Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck"
> > <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:36 PM
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Desiree
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yes, I'd like to know where the other copy of
> > Desiree is, because I
> > don't
> > > > want to waste more time on it if it won't be the
> > copy finally accepted.
> > > :-)
> > > > Louise, did you read through and check your
> > scan? I had trouble with
> > > words
> > > > getting cut off because the binding was too
> > tight, so if you didn't have
> > > > this problem yours might be better, but I have
> > also put a lot of effort
> > in
> > > > to mine already, and it didn't turn out quite as
> > bad as I first
> > expected.
> > > > If I feel the same amount of sick tomorrow, and
> > no better or no worse, I
> > > > will get back to reading Desiree, since i can do
> > that laying around on
> > my
> > > > couch or in my recliner.
> > > >
> > > > Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> > > > curious entity at earthlink dot net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:19 PM
> > > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Desiree
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Sarah, Whenever you're ready to submit it,
> > let me
> > > > > know and I'll download it and keep renewing it
> > until I
> > > > > can get to it.-- (unless Louise's scan is
> > being worked
> > > > > on or awaiting approval). That's what I did
> > with this
> > > > > book (Hanta Yo); several people had downloaded
> > and
> > > > > returned it because they ran into problems and
> > before
> > > > > it got nuked I wanted to see if I could fix it
> > or if
> > > > > it was too bad , but I was working on a couple
> > of
> > > > > other things at the time, so I downloaded it
> > to save
> > > > > it from destruction until I could check it out
> > -- and
> > > > > I'm glad I did. I'm enjoying reading it and I
> > think
> > > > > it's a worthwhile addition to the collection
> > and one
> > > > > which should be preserved.
> > > > >
> > > > > Louise, do you know what happened to your
> > scan? I've
> > > > > been periodically checked the download list,
> > Jesse's
> > > > > list and the collection for the book and I
> > haven't
> > > > > seen it. If someone else is validating it or
> > if it has
> > > > > been validated and is in the approval queue,
> > that's
> > > > > fine -- I'll return my copy of the book.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jesse, could we have an updated version of
> > your list?
> > > > > I think it's been several weeks since the last
> > one. Is
> > > > > Desiree in the administrator approval pool or
> > being
> > > > > validated?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cindy
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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