[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Missing Periods
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:38:31 -0700
Hi Roger,
I don't know if you've tried this, but sometimes, with a difficult book, I
get best results if I scan in the dark. That way ambient light can't have
any effect on the results. Just a thought.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 9:12 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Missing Periods
I can't say that it is that important to me. When I first started scanning I
was looking around for something to scan and a neighbor came up with some
very old science fiction mass market paperbacks from a storage room and they
had been there for years. My first attempts got only garble for me. I have
now become a bit better at scanning old mass market paperbacks, but they
still are not as easy as newer trade books. I also had to give up on at
least a couple. As for this one, the last two pages scanned okay the last
time I worked on it yesterday, so I will stick with it a while before I give
up. If the frustration grows too much I will just move on to something else.
_ _ _
"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most
- that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial
tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs
The Militant:
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Pathfinder Press:
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Granma International:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 2:09 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Missing Periods
> Try a different copy or edition. Try libraries or one of the used book
> places if it's an important book for you personally. I have a book just
> like that and it took 2 different editions, paper and hardback, before I
> got the problem solved. One has dropped periods and one has textual
> problems. I compare editions whenever there's a problem. I read the first
> 15 pages and fixed periods and commas, too. I then did the same pages
> over with someone else reading along and we still found that we could miss
> punctuation marks. That's why I eventually decided to go with the book
> with textual issues and compare with the dropped periods copy for any
> words that weren't obvious. Btw, a comparison showed about 6000 commas
> and periods each with 100 of each missing. It's not that that's a lot,
> it's that they're so overlookable.
> Now, a "the" that's a "die" sticks out and yells at you.
> Good luck.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:40 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Missing Periods
>
>
>> To follow up on my earlier post, I have now scanned pages four and five.
>> Page four turned out okay, but page five was missing it's periods. I
>> didn't try rescanning this time. I just went through it inserting the
>> periods. Thank goodness some of the periods were there this time, but
>> most of them were not. If I have to go through this for the entire book
>> this is going to be a slow and tedious job. Does anyone know of a find
>> and replace that will fix this using Open Book as the editing software?
>> Better yet, does anyone know of a way to prevent it in the first place?
>>
>>
>> _ _ _
>>
>> "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the
>> most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and
>> most menial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs
>>
>>
>> The Militant:
>> http://www.themilitant.com
>> Pathfinder Press:
>> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
>> Granma International:
>> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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