[bksvol-discuss] Re: why PQ books often don't have page breaks (was Re: a discovery)
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:03:49 -0700
Hi Ann,
If you want to make mp3 files using Kurzweil of PQ books, divide them by
using the bookmarks as divisions. Generally these are chapter headings.
Just select that option in the mp3 creation dialogue in Kurzweil, and use
bookmarks at level 4 or higher in order to catch all of the bookmarks. Just
in case you want to have shorter mp3 files.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] why PQ books often don't have page breaks (was Re:
a discovery)
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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