[bksvol-discuss] Re: Lucifer's Hammer -- Recognition accuracy
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:06:31 -0500
Thanks, Guido. I sometimes forget that excellence is a moving target, and I
would imagine many of us here - myself included - may not be as happy with our
early submissions as our latest. Still, it sounds to me as though, given the
recognition figure here that the book will be very readable even with the
caveats you mention.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Guido Corona
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Lucifer's Hammer -- Recognition accuracy
Kurzweil 1000 reports that the copy of Lucifer's Hammer, by Niven and
pournelle currently on Bookshare contains 99.75% of words in the Kurzweil word
dictionary. However, there are spurious blank lines at the bottom of each
page, and I may have stripped completely headers manually before submitting the
book, because Kurzweil does not report any preliminary pages. With hindsight,
I should have done this differently according to more recent stripping
standards.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were
guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the
most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
[David Poyer, The Command]
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