[bksvol-discuss] Re: rejected "Flash Flood" by Diann Mills
- From: Dan Beaver <dbeaver@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:43:36 -0400
Ok, let me see if I can help you all help me be a better validator.
E, I appreciate your candor. In the environment in which I work for
employment I have had to learn to recognize concern over abruptness and
the like and so I simply received your statements as attempting to help me
do a better job. thanks for that.
Ok, let's see...
I use Microsoft Word as the editor to do my validating. I do not have any
of the tools like OpenBook or Kurzweil.
When I validate I do make a lot of spelling corrections if they are
obvious. If there is any question I leave them as is.
the 2 books I have rejected so far have had a large number of missing page
breaks. I have followed Jake's tips and have looked for section breaks
first Once it is clear that those are where page breaks should be I have
converted them to page breaks. These books have had well over 200 pages
but only approximately half as many page breaks. When reading through the
text I noticed that between the existing page breaks there is nothing to
indicate where a page break should be placed. I looked for things like
page header/footers or page numbers or even multiple blank lines. None of
those were found.
In the books I have approved I also found many missing page breaks but
they had page headers/footers and page numbers that I could use to know
where the breaks should be located. those books also had approximately
half the page breaks missing.
When I am validating if I notice patterns of commonly misspelled words
occuring repeatedly I do use global find and replace actions to fix all of
those misspellings.
Does this help? I hope I wasn't too wordy.
Thanks all.
Dan Beaver
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What are you using to validate books? I mean are you using Word, or k1000
or what? What you use tells us what tools you have. k1000 has a
wonderful
set of tools for dealing with scanning errors.
Please let us know what kind of scanning erros you are encountering. Many
can be fixed with careful use of find and replace commands. For instance
cornmand can be replaced by command and cornputer with computer. "1 have"
can be replaced with "I have" and so on. Often something which seems
littered with error can be cleaned.
The kind of errors and scanning problems which are much more troublesome
to
fix are repeated cutting off of ends and beginnings of lines while
scanning.
E.
At 05:45 PM 6/7/2006, you wrote:
>Wow! there are tools that will actually handle those kind of
>probloems? Ok, one more ticki mark on the wall of things to handle
>differently.
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>Thanks for the ensight.
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>Dan Beaver
>IBM Global Services Lexington
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>Please, if you find a book like that with a lot of scano typing errors,
put
>it back on step 1. A lot of correcting can be done on just those kinds
of
>errors with k1000. You may want to talk about your reasons for rejecting
a
>book on this list before actually rejecting it. Then, you may find you
can
>release certain books for others to work on who have access to tools you
>may not have.
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>E.
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>At 05:13 PM 6/7/2006, you wrote:
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> > I really hate rejecting books.
> >
> >I rejected this one because it has lots and lots of misspellings due to
> >scanning errors. It also has lots of page breaks missing due to
scanning
> >double pages without being in double page scanning mode. there is no
way
> >to tell where those missing breaks should be placed.
> >
> >Whoever submitted it originally do so again and I'll be happy to
validate
> >it again.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Dan Beaver
> >IBM Global Services Lexington
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