I see Beverly's going to doit. very good; I'll go back and work on my Y.A.
book
Cindy
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 7:42 PM Beverly Cory <beverlycory@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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 senderrogerbailey81 for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
breaks. I scan one page at a time and read through it listening to the
Recently three of my scans were rejected due to insufficient paragraph
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.
was working on at the time. I was closing in on finishing it. That one does
Anyway, when the rejections started coming I began examining the book I
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.
not my settings. That is because, for one thing, not all of the paragraph
Let me add, though, that I have reason to suspect that the problem is
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.
that I have now finished but have not yet submitted. While looking through
Second, I think I see a possible fix for the rejected scan and the one
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
doing all my work in Open Book and it has limited word processing
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.
likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our
--
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