Thank you a bizillion Dave for the rework!! Please send me a note as soon as you repost, so I can grab the book, do a final quick spit & polish, and approve prontissimo. By the way, I have learned a couple of tricks that allow me to do 2-page-scanning also for fullsize hardcover. Pls let me know if you want some tips. Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html talmage@xxxxxxxxxx Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/14/2004 10:26 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: Killers Wake by Bernard Cornwell -- Sorry, had to nuke it 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 > > > > >Guido D. Corona >IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. >IBM Research, >Phone: (512) 838-9735 >Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx > >Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: >http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html > > > > >"Reggie & Lonnie" <regandlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >06/14/2004 06:28 AM >Please respond to >bksvol-discuss > >To ><bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >cc >Subject >[bksvol-discuss] Re: An apollogy! > > > > >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 > > >