[bksvol-discuss] Re: headings to keep or not to keep
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:01:27 -0400
I am not familiar with screen readers or programs other than Kurzweil but I did
notice and have taken advantage of Kurzweil's ability to have the reader
ignore the headings or not as I chose. There are times I like the reminder,
especially when I am reading stories or chapters of different lengths. It also
helps when I am switching from one book to another or a book and other files.
When I read I often get totally involved with a story or even a well written
piece of non-fiction that while I remember the topic I may forget the point of
view and the headings may remind me of that. It does make a difference who the
writer is and just that heading will remind me of the writer's point of view as
one being somewhat suspect or one I have found reliable.
One can almost insure that the heading will be kept if the page number is on
the same line so I don't worry about the stripper or the validater doing so. I
hope the validater will respect that I have reasons for including [or not]
something and leave what I have included. Just as I hope that in some cases
where there is a lot of what seem to be misspellings that they will assume that
I did not correct them because they were what the author wrote. When I check
the spelling on a scan I do so with the text nearby. I like to scan and
validate books by authors whose works I have read before so I know if he has
spelling or sentence structure issues such as writing one compound word where
technically there should be 2 words. When I can write as well as they do I
will consider correcting them but not likely. It is my understanding that what
we are validating is that the Bookshare edition is a correct copy of the
printed edition.
Amy
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