[bksvol-discuss] Re: Got my first book to validate and some questions: Volunteers: how much work is realistic
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:13:59 -0700 (PDT)
To answer your second problem first if I were you I'd
release the file unless you can get the correct
edition of the book itself from the library. That
would help you put the page numbers and page breaks
where they belong -- but if it's a txt file instead of
an rtf or possibly a Word file (I haven't downloaded
one of the latter so I haven't seen any) the breaks
wouldn't be retained. Ithink the page numbers would,
though, if they were on a separaate line from story
text. However, I've had files where the page numbers
were in the middle of sentences and here, there and
elsewhere. It takes time and patience to clean up, and
helps to have th book handy. If you are in school or
work and/or have a family, I'd suggest that you
release the book and take something in better shape
that would be fun for you and not as frustrating.
Now to your first question -- if the page numbers are
sequential and one is missing, I write it in in
brackets. For example, if the last page of one chapter
is page 28, the next page, which is the first page of
the next chapter doesn't have a number but the page
number after that is 30, then I put 29 in brackets at
the top of the page on which the chapter begins )or
the bottom, if all the page numbers are at the
bottom)l
Cindy
P.S. What is the title and what kind of book is it
that you have with the messed-up numbers? If you want
to release it and it's a txt or rtf file, I'll take it
if it interests me and if no one else wants it (as
long as it's not Chinese philosophy or poetry or
overly scholarly history.) I'm retired, my kids are
grown, my husband doesn't mind my spending my time
doing bookshare stuff and volunteering in the library
instead of doing housework, and I enjoy reading (most
books) -- and I've retired from cooking as well. It's
a great life.
C
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