Okay, I have done all you said except that I could not convert it to rtf but
could to txt. Now the easily found copy of the book I have is not the
edition they used: ie my hardback v. the original paperback. My librarian
is looking for the paperback and I will be when & if my aide arrives as I am
certain I have it here somewhere but not where it should have been. Worse
case scenario: if I cannot find the matching edition, can I correct it using
the hardback and change the info accordingly as I do not believe I can scan
without a program beyond my Dell "All in one" though I used that in combo
with K1000 to do all my previous scanning. I do know this book as it is
would have turned the young Merlin's hair white even before he was a wizard.
My memory of the Fawcett is that it is very close to the hardback though the
pagination as indicated in the contents is somewhat different. Using this
copy to correct will enable me to fix the fact that it has both roman
numerals and arabic numerals for the same pages but the numbers are
different. Weird. I too love it and after being frustrated by having to
submit Genji and Kipling for others to validate (hoopefully there won't be
too much work) I can pay back by fixing this, which I turned to in order to
escape the frustration of the other - only to face the problem of not being
able to use VRS on my machine and having to go round-about to download
anything from bookshare by saving the books and opening them later with
Internet Explorer and then, when I finally get The Crystal Cave, this is
what I find. At least this is one book that I can fix one way or other (by
hook or by crook and any other cliche you can think of as long as I can do
it) we can worry about it going back from txt to rft or html or whatever
once I get it right (and you the braille copy - good luck . If your hair
isn't already white, like mine, it may be when he find what this is not.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:04 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: html ed. of The Crystal Cave in Bookshare
edition.
I believe she is saying this exists in a book already in the bookshare collection. Amy, there are books in the collection, particularly ones added in the beginning days of bookshare whose quality is not all it should be. Good that you mention books like that on this list. Perhaps somebody wants to take it, and with a print copy, fix it up and resubmit. To do so, somebody would download the html as you did, use save as to save the file as .rtf, fix up the file and resubmit to bookshare with the letters bso in front of the title as in
bso-The Crystal Cave
By the way, one of my favorite books. I think I can get a braille copy from NLS. When I have time, I will do my best to correct the bookshare copy and re-submit as a bso if nobody has fixed it up before then. Thanks for being vigilant and letting us all know.
E.
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