[bksvol-discuss] Re: A little experimenting
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:49:55 -0800 (PST)
I don't know what book you downloaded, or if it was
submitted by the same person who submitted the three
books Grace referred to, nor do I know what she
decided to do with two out of three, but the third one
she did decide to keep and work on and I've requested
the book with which to provide missing and/or garbled
pages. So that is going to take the time of two
people, not counting the time of the library
personnel, to fix up a book for which the submitter
does not, in my opinion, deserve credit. The other two
books are not available to me,and I don't know if
anyone else was able to get them.
G.Cindy
--- Donna Smith <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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