[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page numbers and headers/footers
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:51:17 -0700 (PDT)
Mike,
If readers have that option, does that mean that
validators would leave the headers alone, correcting
the ones that are garbled? Should we not delete them
as we validate?
Cindy
-- Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim
>
> What I would like to see as a BookShare reader,
> submitter, and validator
> is the stripping process left to the downloader's
> choice at the time of
> retrieving the book.
> There are different occasions when one choice might
> be more desirable than
> another; and what I might prefer for one book on a
> given day might not be
> that desired on another book that day or down the
> road.
> The user would choose a default option which could
> be overridden at the
> time of retrieval.
> Because of the nature of an automated tool such as
> the stripper,
> expecting perfection is impossible; and it will
> never give totally
> consistent results.
> Yet, for some, it serves a need; and they should
> have that available for
> them.
> For others, it is either not needed or they have
> means at their end to
> remove the superfluous information.
>
> Out of curiosity, this morning, I performed a mini
> test using K1000's
> header/footer removal utility in the careful mode.
> I labeled each page in a document with the top line
> being blank,
> the next line with a = sign and the 3rd with a
> number.
> What happened, some pages retained numbers and about
> half or so didn't.
> My point is that this kind of tool while
> conceptually making sense is
> always going to react not 100% predictably.
> So have it available for those who opt for it, but
> also allow for
> downloads
> without the tool being applied.
>
>
>
>
> Short of that, you are about as likely to reach a
> consensus on that as you
> are on who makes the best pizza or ribbs in town.
> You'll be flooded with opinions and reasonings; but
> you hardly will walk
> away with agreement.
> And because you won't achieve that consensus, it
> might be better to allow
> customers to make their own choices as to what
> should be done with the
> downloads as part of the downloading process.
>
> As I said before, I'd suggest that customers have a
> default preference set
> which they could choose to override for a given
> download.
>
>
>
>
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