[bksvol-discuss] Re: Guidelines for prep of books for submission?
- From: "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:04:51 -0500
Dear Mike,
Please send your concerns and suggestions directly to Jim. I am powerless
to do anything about the logistics of this situation, as are we all. Only
management can intervene.
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:23 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Guidelines for prep of books for submission?
> Debbie
>
> The problem is that while the Daisy tags are likely preserved for audio
> purposes,, the textual information is lost when the files are read via a
> screen reader.
> What makes reading the Daisy files preferable to reading the .brf ones is
> that the supplied page breaks are retained rather than the synthetic ones
> that are a result of .brf conversion.
> Perhaps the classic example of a destroyed book, from attempting to find
> things using K1000 or a screen reader, is the cookbook recently uploaded
> by Charlene Oto where the stripper removed headers which indicated what a
> page contained recipewise.
> One of my recent submissions, John Ortberg's
> "If you want to walk on Water, you've got to get out of the boat" lost
> many of its chapter identifiers.
> What is needed, as I see it, is the book exactly as submitted by the
> validator when returning the book to BookShare.
> Perhaps it could be as a 6th file in the Daisy download package.
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