Cindy, no I haven't done everything else. Like I said, I am doing all my
work in Open Book and that has limited word processing capabilities and,
no, I have not done the formatting. But., no, I can't really send you
the book because it has been severely damaged in the scanning process.
Also, I am in at least a little bit of a hurry. I am not in a particular
hurry to get it entirely proofread. I am just in a hurry to find out if
my proposed fix will work. The sooner I find out the sooner I will know
whether to offer the other three books for the same fix.
___
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 10:40 PM, Cindy Rosenthal wrote:
Roger, the books interest me; I'd be happy to proof them, and as I read put in proper paragraph breaks; at the moment I'm proofing a ya book without having the print book which I was told is possible; there's no hurry for it; I'm used to having print books with which to compare because I thought we were supposed to have the proofed scan be exactly like the print book am I wrong? we ; anyway if you'd like me to proof your rejected scan I'd be happy to; did you say you've done everything else,i.e. done the formatting, spell-check,pagination check? would you be willing to mail me your book? I'd return it to when i've finished my libaries are closed to Covid; your Modoc books I'd be happy to; I'm careful but not fast, and with the holidays coming up I might be slower than usual;
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 6:58 PM Roger Loran Bailey <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 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.I don't understand your
suggested global replace; varkous things, like ellipsesand em
dashes, if I rememner correctly.have 2 or 3 spaces; anyway, if no
one else offers and you'd like me to proof your rejected book
and put in the paragraph breaks; let me know and if you're
willingto mail me teh print nook I'll send you my addresss
Cindy
-- ___
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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