Very well. I will upload it with a hold for you. Right now it is
approaching bed time, so I will probably do it tomorrow.
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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 11/15/2020 10:42 PM, Beverly Cory wrote:
Hi Roger,
I’m a sighted proofreader, and I’m willing to test your search-and-replace
theory in Lost River. Sounds like it might work. I have a pretty good eye for
paragraphing, so I think I’ll be able to judge the success even though I don’t
have the printed book. Bring it on!
Beverly COry
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On Nov 15, 2020, at 6:58 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81 fordoing all my work in Open Book and it has limited word processing
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently three of my scans were rejected due to insufficient paragraph breaks.
I scan one page at a time and read through it listening to the Karen synthetic
voice for errors before scanning the next page. Then every two pages I do a
spell check. While listening to the read through I find that it reads smoothly
and if there are missing paragraph breaks I don't know about it. This is all
really time consuming and to have all my work just trashed is rather upsetting.
This is exactly the kind of thing that seriously tempts me to just quit
volunteering. These books I have been doing lately are not even the kinds of
books that I am interested in. They are just books that have been culled from a
large trove of books from a friends of library sale and were culled solely on
the basis that they were not in the Bookshare collection. So not only have I
been putting in a lot of work on them, but I have been boring myself too.
Anyway, when the rejections started coming I began examining the book I was
working on at the time. I was closing in on finishing it. That one does have
paragraph breaks, but I don't think it has all of them. So here is my first
question. Does anyone have any idea if some setting in my Open Book 9.0
software has changed and if so which setting it might be? It has been a long
time since I have changed those settings, at least consciously, because I have
them exactly the way I wanted them. Also, some of the settings have never been
changed. There are settings that I don't understand and have left at the
default because I expect that if I go messing with something I don't understand
I might mess up things completely.
Let me add, though, that I have reason to suspect that the problem is not my
settings. That is because, for one thing, not all of the paragraph breaks are
missing, at least not in my most recent scan. Also, it seems that when I apply
extra pressure to the book when scanning, to the point of my arms trembling
with the strain, there are more paragraph breaks. However, even then I don't
think I am picking up all of them.
Second, I think I see a possible fix for the rejected scan and the one that I
have now finished but have not yet submitted. While looking through the pages I
was scanning after I got the news of my rejected scan I noticed something about
the missing paragraph breaks. I am not really good at telling where one
paragraph ends and another one begins unless it is in dialog. In dialog every
time another character begins speaking a new paragraph starts. I noticed that
when this happened and there was no paragraph break there was an extra space
between the last quotation mark and the next one, sometimes three spaces. Then
when looking for the same thing in the narrative I did find two, sometimes
three, spaces between the last word of a sentence and the beginning of the next
at just the points at which it would make sense for a new paragraph to start.
So I think I see the fix. If these double or triple spaces were globally
replaced with paragraph breaks that should do the job. However, I am
capabilities. That is why I scan books rather than proofread them. So here is
my proposal. If one of you would volunteer to take it I could upload one of my
rejected scans again with a hold on it for you. You could try that global
replacement I suggested providing that you think it is feasible and then
proofread the book. I propose the one that I was told was one big paragraph
from beginning to end. That was Lost River by Paxton Riddle. It is a
novelization of actual historical events, conflict between the Modoc people of
Northern California and the white settlers in the mid nineteenth century. The
author is a descendant of the main characters, a Modoc woman and a white man
who were married just as the conflict was breaking out. I would like to upload
this book alone until I find out if my proposed fix will work. If it does then
whoever takes it can inform me and I will be back to ask if anyone wants the
other three.
If it doesn't work then I suppose I will have to reconsider my options from
that point. Anyone interested? The first to offer will get the hold.
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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
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