Hi Roger, I don't know if you've tried this, but sometimes, with a difficult book, I get best results if I scan in the dark. That way ambient light can't have any effect on the results. Just a thought. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 9:12 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Missing Periods I can't say that it is that important to me. When I first started scanning I was looking around for something to scan and a neighbor came up with some very old science fiction mass market paperbacks from a storage room and they had been there for years. My first attempts got only garble for me. I have now become a bit better at scanning old mass market paperbacks, but they still are not as easy as newer trade books. I also had to give up on at least a couple. As for this one, the last two pages scanned okay the last time I worked on it yesterday, so I will stick with it a while before I give up. If the frustration grows too much I will just move on to something else. _ _ _ "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 2:09 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Missing Periods > Try a different copy or edition. Try libraries or one of the used book > places if it's an important book for you personally. I have a book just > like that and it took 2 different editions, paper and hardback, before I > got the problem solved. One has dropped periods and one has textual > problems. I compare editions whenever there's a problem. I read the first > 15 pages and fixed periods and commas, too. I then did the same pages > over with someone else reading along and we still found that we could miss > punctuation marks. That's why I eventually decided to go with the book > with textual issues and compare with the dropped periods copy for any > words that weren't obvious. Btw, a comparison showed about 6000 commas > and periods each with 100 of each missing. It's not that that's a lot, > it's that they're so overlookable. > Now, a "the" that's a "die" sticks out and yells at you. > Good luck. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:40 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Missing Periods > > >> To follow up on my earlier post, I have now scanned pages four and five. >> Page four turned out okay, but page five was missing it's periods. I >> didn't try rescanning this time. I just went through it inserting the >> periods. Thank goodness some of the periods were there this time, but >> most of them were not. If I have to go through this for the entire book >> this is going to be a slow and tedious job. Does anyone know of a find >> and replace that will fix this using Open Book as the editing software? >> Better yet, does anyone know of a way to prevent it in the first place? >> >> >> _ _ _ >> >> "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the >> most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and >> most menial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs >> >> >> The Militant: >> http://www.themilitant.com >> Pathfinder Press: >> http://www.pathfinderpress.com >> Granma International: >> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html >> 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. > 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.