Okay, I just tested the new setting. It has been so long since I
adjusted the settings - I think since I set it up in the first place -
that I forgot how to save the settings. You do it a bit differently than
in most programs. So I was about to report back that it didn't help at
all. But then I decided to look at that setting one more time and it had
reverted to default. That is when I remembered that I had to save the
settings separately from the settings dialog I was in. I did that and
closed Open Book and restarted it to be sure. The new setting had then
saved. I tried scanning a page from the book that I was told was one
long paragraph, Lost River, and all the paragraph breaks do seem to be
there now. I very much hope Beverly can fix the scan I uploaded again
with a hold for her because on these last several books I did something
I really hate to do. I have a revulsion for purposely damaging books,
but these were very thick mass market paperbacks with extremely tight
margins, so I finally gave up and started tearing one page out after
another and scanning them one at a time. I will have to admit that I get
a much better scan that way with very few scanning errors and I don't
miss text due to tight margins, but I anguish with every page I remove.
The books are now held together with rubber bands and if I had to rescan
them the job would be much harder than the first time around. Having to
keep a bunch of loose pages in order would be a horrendous job.
___
Sam Harris
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely
to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of
wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in
which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases
and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a
refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has
good reason to believe. The methodology isn't perfect, and the history of
science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity. But that is
just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and corrected
by-what, religion? No, by good science.”
― Sam Harris
On 11/16/2020 3:10 PM, Judy wrote:
That's even weirder, Roger.
Judy
On November 16, 2020 2:02:35 PM CST, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But that wasn't a matter of the software returning the setting to
the default mode. I never changed it from the default in the first
place, at least not until now.
___
Sam Harris
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is
likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers
of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain
in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate
biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have
developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from
what he has good reason to believe. The methodology isn't perfect, and the
history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity.
But that is just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and
corrected by-what, religion? No, by good science.”
― Sam Harris
On 11/16/2020 2:47 PM, Judy wrote:
I have had many programs change settings on me on their own back
to the default. It happens for lots of reasons, like when the
software has an internal error and fixes itself. It can also
happen during a Windows update. It shouldn't, but it does. It can
happen when you change versions of Windows, but it can also
happen from one of their daily updates.
It's really frustrating.
I spent four days last week fixing problems caused on our laptop
by a daily windows update that biffed settings on other software.
The most useless part of that time was on direct calls to
Microsoft support. Every "solution"they wanted me to do was dead
wrong. I finally figured it out myself.
Judy
On November 16, 2020 1:29:50 PM CST, Roger Loran Bailey
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Like I said, I have now changed that setting to most accurate and when I
manage to get through my email I may test it with a single page if I get
the time. But I wonder this. I have let that setting in the default mode
ever since I got this version of Open Book. That would have been when I
upgraded to Windows 7 and found out that my earlier version of Open Book
was not compatible with Windows 7. I am now using Windows 10. Since that
time I have scanned many books that are now in the Bookshare collection.
So why did this problem crop up just recently?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sam Harris
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology
is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our
powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one
domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our
innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we
have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true
from what he has good reason to believe. The methodology isn't perfect, and the
history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity.
But that is just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and
corrected by-what, religion? No, by good science.”
― Sam Harris
On 11/16/2020 6:37 AM, Dolores Dean wrote:
Roger, the settings Judy wrote about are the ones I use.
I had had the same problem you now have. Those settings
work fine. If I can be of any help, please let me know. I
scan the way you do and I absolutely know how frustrating
and time-consuming it can be when books are rejected. But
don't give up. I am tempted sometimes but then what...?
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