Hi Guido,
That book was a fairly large hard cover that wouldn't allow 2 page
scanning, and as such, it was such a pain in my pa-tootie that I was too
eager to be rid of it so I didn't put my usual message in the comment field
indicating that I had already checked for completeness and ditched any
duplicate pages. In looking it over again however, I found a number of
spots where there must have been a graphic of some sort on the right side
of some pages. They were probably maps, as in addition to some of the
usual nonsense characters there were also labels. I cleaned up those, and
added a few page numbers where they were missing. I also had to detach a
few page numbers from the last line of the text.
A couple of things that were probably causing your consternation were the
blank pages that weren't being retained. I used to have Openbook set to
not save blank pages, and since of late I've been steering clear of hard
covers when possible, so I neglected to check that setting. This certainly
wasn't a tree friendly book by any means with the number of pages that are
blank. As the book is broken down into Part 1, 2, etc., there are 1 to 2
blank pages prior to each section break. Another thing that was slightly
odd about the book was that the first page of the story was listed as page
11. The only thing I can figure there is that the printer started counting
on the title page, and a couple of blank pages were ditched. I put the
blank pages back in between the sections, but I left the title page,
copyright page, etc. alone.
I haven't reposted it yet as I'll probably go through it once more looking
for extraneous characters. After I originally scanned it I read it with a
Bookport, so I missed some of the garbage characters.
Dave
At 10:33 AM 6/14/2004, you wrote:
Late last week I reviewed Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell. Sorry I had to rejected in spite of the fact that the book was outwardly of excellent quality. Unfortunately when I wen I performed a page integrity check by sampling every 20 pages or so, I realized the book was badly out of kilter. By page 50 there was already an offset of 4 pages. I tried to do some repair, but crucial page numbers were missing in the problem spots and I was not able to determine exactly what/where the problem was. These kinds of situations can only be fixed by the submitter.
While it is not necessary to perform complete quality checks and spellchecks before submitting a book, it is important to perform a thorough page integrity check, so that the book is submitted in its entirety, without page omissions or duplications. This will make book approval a lot faster.
If the original submitter can fix book integrity, I will be happy to fix the rest of the book in short order. Thanks, Guido
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I want to apologize to everyone. I had downloaded books that I was continuously checking, but it has taken me more time. I downloaded a lot of books mistakenly as I was very afraid I would have to work on books I would not feel comfortable validating as they were about subjects I know little about. Jesse said to not keep them so long unless I could do them quickly so I have tried to place back on the validation list some of the books that were older. Again, I apologize, and I hope someone who has more time than I actually have can help get these finished, and hopefully I can validate quicker in the future.
Reggie
