Hi Jill,
There are two options. One is to rescan the whole book, as you
said, but there's another one which sounds like it would take less
time. A sighted person could get the book from a library, ask me
to put the book back on the download list, grab the book from the
download list, put in the chapter titles WITH protection (like the
page number), and upload it again. I approve it and we're done.
If the book has a table of contents with the chapter titles listed,
then a visually impaired person could do the same thing, using the
table of contents to find the correct page to put the chapter title
and protection. This is what Bob Wiley just did with the 3 Theodore
Sturgeon books he was editing.
Carrie
----- Original Message ----
From: Jill O'Connell <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:29:04 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
Carrie, When we read a book in the collection and find there are no
chapter headings, the book otherwise being in excellent condition,
is there anything that can be done about this other than rescanning
the book? jill
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
Hi Bob,
I hate to say this, but I checked the first Sturgeon book, saw the
several blank lines before each story title, approved the book,
downloaded the DAISY version, and the story titles are gone. This
is just flat wrong. I'll talk to Engineering about it tomorrow.
I'll leave the other Sturgeon books in the approval queue until
this gets sorted out.
Sorry! It will get fixed, sooner or later (hopefully sooner!) Carrie
----- Original Message ----
From: Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bookshare volunteer discussion <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:03:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
I just wanted to give you kind folks a follow-up on the missing
story titles
in the Theodore Sturgeon collections.
Originally, I noticed that just about all the titles of the stories
in one
of these collections was missing. My first thought was to blame the
validator for not noticing this obvious error and fixing it. It
turned out
that Misha was the hapless recipient of my anger, and I know that
he's a
careful validator and wouldn't let something like that go. So then
I thought
of the scannor, which was Carrie. Carrie is also an excellent
scannor and
wouldn't let something like that get by. I was beginning to think
of things
like divine intervention and demon posession.
I asked Carrie to send me the original document which was submitted
by the
validator, which she did, and "ah ha!" those ppesky titles were in
place. In
fact, they seemed to be grinning up at me as if to say... but, I
digress.
It turns out that the infamous stripper was doing the dirty to this
collection.
A short check of the bookshare collection shows that there are
three other
collections of Mr. Sturgeon's stories missing story titles in the
bookshare
collection.
I have just uploaded those three books with, I hope, story titles
in tact.
It turns out that
the solution is quite simple: I simply put a paragraph mark before
and after
all page breaks, and that damned stripper is fooled into leaving my
titles
alone.
Just wanted to give a follow-up to this pesky problem.
Bob
"Strippers belong in bars, not libraries."--Author unknown.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
> hmm, makes me wonder if the "stripper," should be used at all?
Aren't we
> sophisticated enough by this time to handle the vagaries of what is
> needed?
> Or, maybe not?
>
> Curtis Delzer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Devorah Greenstein" <DGreenstein@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:31 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Missing story titles
>
>
> Ouch ouch. Like Bob, I am more confused now. Plus I don't have the
> benefit of ever experiencing what these books are like after I
validate
> them because I'm sighted. So it's like dropping many hours of
work into
> a black hole and hoping for the best. And I, like many of you
guys, am a
> perfectionist. So I go over every word, check spellings in weird
foreign
> names, check everything, make it as perfect as I can, and upload it.
>
> But then what is happening to my work?
>
> I always do the wonderful ^p^m^p thing so that there are blank
lines on
> either side of the page breaks. But I have NOT been re-typing
each page
> number on the top of a page if the page numbers are at the bottom.
>
> I have left page numbers at the bottom of the page. Am I now
correct in
> my understanding that they all get wiped out? Even if there is a
blank
> line between the page number and the following page break?
>
> I do put a page number on the top of the first page of a chapter. It
> just makes sense to do that. But is it mandatory put all other page
> numbers at the top of each page?
>
> If the mysterious stripper is so smart can't it tell numeric
characters
> from alphabetic characters and leave numeric page numbers at the
bottom
> of the page?
>
> Devorah
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