I think the answer to all these questions is that you should strive to
make proofreading a mere formality as far as you can.
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Carl Sagan
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind
and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says
everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the
fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan
On 12/31/2019 9:58 AM, Don Elbourne wrote:
As a new volunteer, I have a few questions regarding how much is expected by a person who scans the book vs the proofreader.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
Since I am visually impaired, scanning is the easy part,. Proofreading is much more dificult. I can do it, but its just much more tedious.
1. For example, as a scanner, should I remove all the page headers, or is this something that is acceptable to pass along to the proofreader?
2. Do I, as the scanner, need to change the chapter title font size?
3. Every so often my OCR randomly breaks a paragraph. Should I take the time to repair that before submitting the scan?
4. I use Openbook 9 and for some reason it sometimes randomly places a paragraph, or an entire page, in bold font when I save as RTF. Is that something I need to correct, or should I just allow the proofreader to fix that?
5. And lastly, every so often there is a pretty mangled line or two. I assume I do need to correct those, since the proofreader does not have the "exact view" image available to them. Is this correct? How does that work?
I apologize for so many questions, but I want to be as helpful as possible.
