[bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for scanning
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I believe your second example is the preferred way to go.
Cindy
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> From: "Katie Star" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for scanning
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:32:34 -0700
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>
> Hello Julie and Lissi,
>
> I think there is so much information here that often times we ask a question
> again because when it came around the last time we weren't ready for it.
>
> Here is my question. Which is preferred
>
> Out of the wild 46
>
> As he ran down the road
>
> Or
>
> Out of the wild
>
> 46
>
> As he ran down the road ...
>
> I thought I read that it is preferred to have the page number with a blank
> line on either side. Maybe it makes no difference.
>
> Katie Hill
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for scanning
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> Hi, Lissi. Page numbers do now appear in the braille files, and I've been
> meaning to discuss this with you, anyway. I'm finally getting around to
> looking at A CELTIC CHRISTMAS, which was submitted after the BRF files were
> redone, and there are two page numbers in the file now. There's the page
> number the Bookshare system puts in, then the page number I'm assuming you
> put in, so somehow, they didn't end up matching up. That's another reason, I
>
> suppose, I just leave the headers in, especially if the page number appears
> in that header, which often, in the books I scan, it does. Take care.
> Julie Morales
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> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 3:11 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Headers question for scanning
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>
> Dear Volunteers,
>
> I'm interested in the answer to Rick's question, too. When I validate I
> delete the running headers. Am I confusing the system even more than usual
> by doing this. And, are page numbers better at the top? I thought the last
> word was it didn't matter, but I'd gladly put them uniformly at the top.
>
> I know they should be all at the top or all at the bottom but not in mixed
> locations within a book.
>
> If brf file users have a never fail system for protecting page numbers so
> they appear in the collections downloaded books, I'd be relieved to have
> this foolproof method and would use it religiously.
>
> Currently, I've abandoned my extra blank line with a line of dash dash dash,
> and just place a blank line above and below page numbers.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
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> From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:05 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Headers question for scanning
>
>
> > I have a question for scanning books for submission.
> > As I understand it, there is something called a stripper, which looks to
> > the
> > top of each page for the page number, and strips out the text that is
> > there,
> > which is usually repeated text like title on one page, chapter title or
> > author on the other.
> >
> > Since as a listening reader to this book, the repetitive text is not
> > really
> > essential and mostly just a distraction from the narrative, I like the
> > Daisy
> > books I have downloaded from Bookshare where the page numbers are all that
> > I
> > hear. I figure this must be a recent thing, since many other Bookshare
> > books I have read do have the header text in there.
> >
> > Now, my queistion -- Should we as scanners of the book remove this text?
> > I have heard folks talk about moving page numbers to top of page. But I
> > have not heard yet if we should remove the text.
> >
> > Hoping to start scanning The Big Bam, the new biography of Babe Ruth this
> > weekend.
> >
> > If this is so, perhaps it could be stated in the information for the new
> > Bookshare members when they begin to scan and submit to our collection.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Rik
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