Thank you for your response. I saved your scanning tips email from a while back and plan to see exactly what you do. Has Bookshare ever given us statistics on how many people have subscriptions who don't either use braille or screen readers? In other words, how many users are there where this font issue is important? Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Jill, The only reason this book's fonts are a problem is because they are different enough that when one scans cleanly, the other scans with manyerrors. One font is a standard font. The other looks like the font created by using a very old typewriter. This second font requires using the setting to recognized degraded text, while the first font is "normal" text. This isnot a common occurrence in books, as far as I've seen. I do regulate the font within each book that I scan, as far as making it all the same size. I do this, because in most cases, scanned books are full of many sizes of fonts. This makes for very difficult reading among folks who use their eyes to read at all, which is everyone using bookshare except we totally blind folks. Since it takes only 30 seconds, tops, to do, I'm happy to make everyone have a less difficult reading experience. But that is just my feeling on the subject. Hope I answered your question sufficiently. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:15 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Planning to Scan Mary, I scan with Kurzweil and I don't concern myself with fonts. If it is reading correctly, I assume the scan is okay. Am I missing something important here?----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Planning to ScanHi Christina, Thought I'd warn you. "The Art of Detection" by Laurie R. King is a book I started to work on and kind of bailed on. It is written in two separate fonts. So, just when you think you've got your scanner settings set right, the font will change, and you'll need to readjust. It isn't unmanageable, if you scan and read a few pages at a time as you scan.You'll end up, probably, with two sets of scanning settings that will workand have to switch between them. I just wasn't patient enough to do the work. Just thought I'd tell you what you can expect with that one, so that you can be prepared for the kind of work it will take. I really like that series of books, so will be thrilled and pay homage to your patience once that one is in the collection! Thanks for taking on a bear of a book! You're awesome! Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christina Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:30 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Planning to Scan Hello, everyone. I have some very good friends who are letting me borrow some of their books to scan and add to Bookshare. I plan to scan the following: Guardians of the West by David Eddings Player of Games by Iain Banks The Tides of Time by John Brunner Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King The Jack Vance Treasury by Jack Vance Night's Daughter by Tanith Lee A Dirty Job by Christopher Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn. It's obviously going to take me a while to get through all of these so ifany of you want to validate any of these or want to read any of them rightaway, please let me know and I'll do those first. Thanks. Christina To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.523 / Virus Database: 270.7.6/1712 - Release Date: 10/7/2008 9:41 AMTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.Version: 7.5.523 / Virus Database: 270.7.6/1714 - Release Date: 10/8/2008 7:01 AM
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