[bksvol-discuss] Re: A little experimenting
- From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:38:07 -0500
Donna your a saint. I would have definitely rejected it. The first thing I do
is to check pages. I have been caught in same situation as you.
I honestly don't understand how people can stand to read books with missing
pages and a bunch of garbled text.
Grace who has to learn to reject more.
----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Smith
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A little experimenting
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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