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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