[bksvol-discuss] A little experimenting
- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:26:26 -0500
Okay. I decided to put my energy where my mouth is. (Does that phrase work
when it's not money?)
Oh well, I downloaded at random one of the fair scans. After spending about
two hours with it, I have a book that is missing six pages. Except for this
and an excess of blank lines, and no removal of headers, fixing of
end-of-page hyphens or protecting pagination when blank pages appear between
chapter, it was a very clean scan.
Now I've ordered the book using the exact ISBN so as to be sure that the
copies are identical, and I'll insert the missing pages and upload it again.
I would rather have put that same amount of effort into creating a new scan
that will equal the end product I will have when I'm done, but I thought I
needed to at least go through the process to be sure that I wasn't just
giving into my own bias to scan when talking about this topic. Had I been
able to determine tat six ages were missing prior to putting about an hour's
worth of work into it, I'd have rejected the book outright. Once a certain
amount of effort is involved, I was reluctant to toss it out.
Now it remains to be seen if I can figure out how to hold on to this book
till I get my copy and fix it, and then if I can upload the corrected copy.
Donna, who still doesn't like to validate!
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