[stylist] who checks the details

[Allison Nastoff]

Hi Katie,
That has happened to me too, and it is very frustrating.  Even on 
books that are rated excellent, I will occasionally come across 
stretches where the words are garbbled, and once, a page ended in 
the middle of a sentence, and the next page started with a new 
sentence.  I cannot imagine how tedious it would be to be a 
proofreader especially for really long books, and I respect them 
for their willingness to do it.  However, I think maybe 
proofreaders need to slow down, and if possible, have a paper 
copy of the book in front of them to follow along with at all 
times when they are proofreading.  If the editor or book 
publisher made a mistake, that is one thing.  But I think blind 
people have the right to read books that are as clean as hard 
copy books for sighted people, and should see no more mistakes 
than what sighted people are subjected to by the publisher.  Just 
my opinion.
Allison Nastoff

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>From: "Watson, Katherine M" <WatsonKM05 at uww.edu
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>Date sent: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:41:08 -0500
>Subject: [stylist] who checks the details

>	I read--or attempted to read a copy of the 2009 Writers 
Market from Bookshare, and the file was unreadable.  The 
brf file was full of spelling or OCR errors, and the Daisy 
file could not even be recognized by my Victor Reader 
Stream.  Has that happened to anyone else? (I'm trying to 
find listings of book publishers and editors, so if anyone 
has suggestions, that would be appreciated as well.)
>Katie W

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>Today's Topics:

>   1.  who checks the details? (Barbara Hammel)
>   2.  Re: who checks the details? (Donna Hill)
>   3.  Re: who checks the details? (loristay)

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>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:45:16 -0500
>From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
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>I downloaded a book from bookshare the other day and as I was 
reading, I found some glaring inconsistencies in facts in the 
book.  Once before I read a book that changed someone's hair 
color once.  Who checks those kinds of things?  Do they still 
read the books thoroughly before sending them to press?  I'm just 
curious because that looks bad for the author when someone lets 
things slip that you miss.
>Barbara

>A Congress that will always do its work in the dark must have 
something to hide.  The people have spoken, yet they do not 
listen.

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