Hi Kristen,
There are definitely volunteers that use only braille to proofread. They
may not be saying anything because they aren't around due to the
upcoming holiday, or because the discussion list software has a habit of
unsubscribing people without any warning. If that happened, they may not
be getting emails as they wouldn't even know that the list software has
done that. The books I've seen that were done by volunteers who
proofread in braille had all of the page breaks, the italics and bolding
and the formatting that's needed for chapter headings and the book
titles done, so there has to be a way to do it. smile.
Also, you can do as much as you can on a book, like you were wondering
about, and check it in asking that a second proofreader finish it. You
would do that by leaving a comment in the 'notes' section of the
check-in page and explaining the situation. However, if you do that, I
don't think you get usually any credits from Bookshare for working on
the book. You also would have to be careful not to remove anything like
italics that are used on individual words by the author for emphasis, or
bolding that is supposed to be in the book. Italics especially are
practically impossible to put back in correctly.
Judy s.
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On 12/21/2015 4:53 PM, Kristen Steele wrote:
Hi, Debra--
Thanks for your response! Yes, I would love to hear from any Braille
proofreaders out there. I can usually see bold and italics if I switch
the RTF to a Braille document, but then I would have to convert it
back and hope the formatting is retained. I could always try that way.
I wonder if I could proofread books the best I can with Braille
(probably mostly grammatical and sentence-level error), then check
them back in for someone else to review the complex formatting
afterwards. Another proofreader would have less work to do after I
finish, but my books could get a second reviewer.
--
Kristen
