Thanks a million Cindy yes I am totally blind so don't know really where the scanner hits but thanks so much for the help and I'm trying and learning, gonna rest from scanning and just read for a few days though to see if I did well or not, I just finished scanning Family ever After by Margaret Daley it was really good, but I have enough up there now I need to be sure I am even doing it right silly to put a bunch up there, if I am messing up and things sense I am brand new, and never done this before. I am enjoying it and it is fun but I don't want to do a lot and find out I messed up. I did my rejected book again, Barried sins by Marta Perry, hoping that turned out better this time, the others I have in waiting are, Against All Odds by Chuck Norris, Wanted the author just flew out of my head, seems like there was one more but I did receive a most wonderful email today, trying and learning I hope, Woman At the Well by Daile Evans Rogers was added to the library, the first one I got right, so that encourages me to keep trying. Thanks for excepting my trials. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:47 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: another newby questions please and thank you. You do have to press down on the spine of the book fairly firmly, so it's flat,but not so hard that you break the glass. smile. I don't what scanner or program you're using. I set the bottom of the book at the bottom of my scanner and make sure that the the edges of the pages are not way over at the edge of the scanner. That's where they get cut off. When you think you have the book placed correctly, do a Preview Then you adjust the surrounding lines do that the text is within the box. Then you can scanner--but be careful not to move the book. You can just open it in the middle of the scanner, It's where the bordering square is that determines what gets scan. If it cuts off any of the text it won't scan. Gwen, I'm sorry but I forgot whether or not you're blind. If you are and can't see to set the frame around the text that you want to scan Somebody else better tell you what to do. smile Cindy Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List Books Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List --- On Tue, 8/4/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] another newby questions please and thank you. To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 11:57 AM My name is Gwen wife of Bob who is already a volunteer for a long time here on bookshare. My questions are these: Is there a better place than another to put a book on your scanner bed The first mailing I got from volunteer was a rejection of a book because words were cut off but what was odd was when I read it or herard it on the scanner I heard all the words so didn't know this so thought it was OK and put up a bad book. Now ordenarily, a few years ago, I would have just stopped, gave up and chalked it up to I'll never learn or get it, but for some reason I am glad I got and that that first mailing was a rejection, because it tells me, and taught me what not to do. And I am ready and willing to try again, I am determined, I am one that I have to get it right or knock myself out trying *smile* I try to never but seldom let any thing beat me. another question: I know the book has to lie flat, but what do you really push down to make that happen, because you have to be careful if it is not your book and I feel like I'm putting a terrible amount of pressure on hands and book just to get it to come out right, do you really have to press down that hard? Thanks for any help. Sorry if these questions seem silly or mundain.