[bksvol-discuss] Re: Format Frustration
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:56:52 -0700 (PDT)
Absolutely. I've done a couple of books that were
boring and tedious to me. What I did with those was
not read them carefully, word for word, as I usually
do books, but check the pages and their first and last
lines to be sure they followed each other and correct
scannos as I saw them. I validate with spell-check on,
and it catches things. With names of people and
places, I add them to the spell-check dictionary so it
won't tell me there are too many errors and turn
itself off.
I try to take only books, nonfiction as well as
fiction, that I think I'll enjoy reading. In those two
books I was mistaken--smile. Fortunately, I don't
think either book had a whole lot of errors. Either
the people who scanned them had excellent scanners or
they cared enough about the subject matter to read the
books.
I did put a note in the long synopsis that I hadn't
read the book with my usual care but that if there
were any problems I could get the print book and fix
them. Frankly, I don't think anyone is going to read
either book, though one person said he planned to.
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Elizabeth. (smile) You helped me feel a
> lot better. I was
> getting cranky and then telling myself I shouldn't
> feel that way
> because no one else here gets cranky over their
> work. That made me
> feel even crankier. LOL! I was getting really
> burned out with
> nonfiction and felt stuck. I snagged a thriller
> last night and am
> finding the validation to be much easier. I've got
> to remember that
> it's ok to balance wanting to help with wanting to
> have fun too. I
> can tackle the dryer topics if I remember to take
> turns and do some
> fun validating too.
>
> Monica
>
> On Thursday 9/14/2006 06:18 AM, you wrote:
> >If you are doing anything other than reading for
> fun, for goodness
> >sake, go back to reading for fun. Somebody will
> work on those book
> >you are not interested in. It's noble of you to do
> the work but
> >working on books with do not interest you will just
> make you
> >cranky. I know because when I work on them that is
> what happens to
> >me too. (grin)
> >
> >all the best,
> >E.
>
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