[nabs-l] Question for Anyone Who Gets Their Books Scanned by DSS

[Ashley Bramlett]

Vejas,

I had scanned copies for the garbled mistakes. I'd rather have a reader. 
Have you asked your state vr agency to pay for a reader?
I think readers can provide so much more than text files although you then 
have to schedule time to read with them. They can describe the charts and 
pictures, skip text, tell you what are the bold words which means they are 
vocabulary words,
and go to certain sections.

I think your dss should try to procure the text from the publisher. A text 
file from the publisher would eliminate the need to scan and thus have 
errors.
Does your school do that? Most schools will contact the publisher for the 
text if you provide a receit showing you purchased the book.

If the school only can scan texts, then by all means they need to be 
readable.
If the text is terrible, I'd go back to them and explain what you found. Ask 
them to see if they can correct the errors.
I hope they do that or rescan it with better quality. You cannot use a 
jumbled up text after all.

Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via NABS-L
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 7:18 PM
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Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas
Subject: [nabs-l] Question for Anyone Who Gets Their Books Scanned by DSS

Hi All,
I just finished my freshman year of college.  Thinking ahead to
next year, I would like to avoid an issue that happened my first
semester (not an issue second semester) regarding textbooks not
available on Bookshare or Ibooks.  For the books that were
unavailable on these sites, I brought them and my DSS scanned
them in PDF's.  While I could read most of the text, there were
some parts with too many mistakes to be able to deduce the words.
I don't expect a "perfect" copy, but was wondering how these of
you who have been successful have gotten the most accurate copy.
I'm also wondering if you think it is appropriate that I ask my
DSS to "proofread" the books to compare to the print-I do know
that it would take lots of time, but at least a quick
spell-check.
Thanks,
Vejas

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