[bksvol-discuss] why PQ books often don't have page breaks (was Re: a discovery)
- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:44:18 -0500
Hey Ann,
Many (maybe even most) of the PQ books that are submitted to the
collection are from ebook versions made by the publishers that are sold
for vaious ebook readers. The original publisher ebook versions do not
have page breaks so the PQ versions aren't going to either. Page breaks
don't necessarily make sense on an ebook to a sighted reader--they are
an artifact of a printed book which a sighted reader navigates very
differently than they can navigate an electronic file of a book.
So ebooks aren't mirror images of printed books, and aren't going to
have the same characteristics as printed books.
To sum up: If a publisher hasn't put page breaks in an ebook produced
for sighted readers, you aren't going to find them in the PQ books
coming from publishers direct to Bookshare. smile.
Judy
Ann Parsons wrote:
Morning all,
I made an interesting discovery last night. I downloaded a book from
Bookshare, Down By The River by Robyn Carr. No, don't laugh, I do
read romances when the fit takes me. OK, so because I'm thoroughly
disgusted with the Samantha and Tom voices on the Stream, I proceeded
to put the book through Kurzie, so I could at least have a synthetic
voice that was listenable. So, I plunked this book into Kurzie, and I
told it to make mp3 files of every fifty pages. Well, I got a six
hour mp3 file. Apparently this book has no page breaks in it. I was
expecting at least five mp3 files, nice, manageable chunks that would
contain about an hour of playing time, give or take. Folks, if you're
going to make volunteers be conscious of page breaks and make sure
that a book has them before it is submitted to the collection, it is
my opinion that any PQ books should have the same standards to
follow. Now, I don't mind a six-and-a-half hour mp3 file, but if I
wanted to find any pages in this book, I couldn't because there are
apparently no page breaks. What is Bookshare staff doing about this?
Ann P.
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