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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