I know all of that, E, but it's a good thing to point out to those who may not. There have been a few titles I've mentioned here that could use some fixing up, and I've made notes of them myself so if I'm ever in a position to rescan them, I can do that. Some of the books I've read have had missing text at the ends of lines and all kinds of stuff that would benefit more from a complete rescanning rather than just a fixing up. I read my books using a Braille Lite and download the BRF files, so I can't fix those up. The ones that aren't bad, I just correct as I go for my own purposes, but the ones that really need fixing up, I do make a note of it and have mentioned it here. Take care. Julie Morales Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him. ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 11:46 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books already on bookshare needing fixing up You can always correct the .html version of a book which exists on bookshare and re-submit it putting BSO in the submission. Some of the stuff on bookshare is shamefully messy. If you do not have time to fix up a book, please comment with specifics including the book title on this list so someone can fix it up. E. z At 12:13 AM 3/11/2006, you wrote: >Hi, Bud. You know, I've learned a lot from this list, too, and I think >that's one of the many great things about it. We can't possibly experience >everything there is out there ourselves, so it's nice to learn from what >other people have experienced so when something like that does happen to >us, >we can draw on what others have said worked for them. I know I've raised my >standards for my submissions just by reading what other people do, and not >only that, but reading books from the site and thinking if I submitted that >book, what could I have done to make it better? No, I don't analyze every >book from Bookshare that I download that way, but when I do download a book >that has consistent errors or things missing, I do think about that, so I >think experience is the best teacher, but it's nice to have this list so we >can learn from each others' experiences. Take care. >Julie Morales >Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bud Schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:56 PM >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: spell checking > > >Thanks Julie, > >I appreciate all your comments and I hope it will inspire others as >well as myself to try to submit more usable material. It's too badd >there isn't a list of directions and suggestions for beginners who >are starting to submit books. I just sort of learned by belonging to >this list and just using my common sense. >I'll keep trying to improve the submissions so the validator won't >have so much work. > >T T Y > >BudLAt 12:37 PM 3/4/2006, you wrote: > >Hi, Bud. The important thing is that as a submitter, you're willing to > >learn > >and improve what you do. I think it's true of at least almost all of us > >that > >our earlier submissions might not have been as good as what they are now. > >That could be a software thing, but I think more likely, it's that, as we > >scan books and get more involved with Bookshare, we raise our standards > >and > >just submitting the bare minimum is no longer good enough for most of us. > >As > >long as you're open to suggestions and learning how to improve what you > >do, > >you'll never be perfect, but you're learning and improving and that's the > >important thing. <smile> Take care. > >Julie Morales > >Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him. > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Bud Schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 6:30 PM > >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] spell checking > > > > > >Hi Guys, > > > >I've been submitting books for about thrree years now. I was never > >given any rules or guide lines when I first started so just thought > >that scanning and submitting was all there was to it. Recently I > >have started using the rank speller in Kurzweil and find a lot of > >corrections to make. Maybe the word should go out to submitters that > >spellchecking is part of the submitting. It takes a long time to do > >a book of any size with spellchecking but I'm sure it would be > >appreciated by the validators. > > > > > >Bud Schwab > >W 6 Z Y P > >Malibu, California > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list > >of > >available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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