[bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
- From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:29:29 -0700
Be sure to forward valuable comments like this to the mailing list for
feedback that's in the volunteer manual, so it all gets considered by the
authors. I've seen some great comments on this list.
The mailing address is in the first section of the manual (if I had it in
front of me right now, I'd include it ...)
Lazy Lisa (well, for tonight)
> From: Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: home
> Reply-To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:52:11 -0400
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>
> One thing I am sure is not in manual on validating is spell check. I have been
> scanning and correcting my scans because a lot of the fiction I have scanned
> include dialect and/or dialogue which by normal standards is badly misspelled
> but is deliberate as with a character with a lisp where the author has
> replaced every "s" in his lines with "th" and some the words become very
> strange. Also, many writers don't always spell properly or combine words
> which are normally separated and the publishers and editors have chosen,
> rightly I think, to respect the authors words. So if you are not sure whether
> the word is misspelled or deliberate, and are not sighted and do not have a
> copy of the text, then assume that the scanner deliberately left it as it was
> and follow his/her example. That is why your choice of books to validate is so
> important but if you discover a book is not in your realm of experience no one
> will fault you for returning it for someone else to work on.
>
> Amy
> omsm
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