Pat,

Well. Umm. Might be too late lol. I offered it to a lady. Which for various
reasons I'll likely go with her for a small fee. I will though let
BookShare know about the one bad book I got. It said it was a fair scan but

the book would
som
et
imes
look like this and
it is very hard to make sense out of it just when you get cooking  on read
ing and it breaks up like that lol.

Brad



At 01:44 PM 12/4/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>Brad, you should still send this message to BookShare, and maybe someone
>will get them and scan them for you. It will not cost you anything, as they
>have volunteers who scan for nothing, and they get paid a small amount by
>BookShare for submitting books.
>
>People make book requests all the time. Try it! I know it will work.
>
>Also, tell them about the poorly scanned book you did get. They need
>feedback from their subscribers. You paid your membership, you are entitled
>to voice your opinion.
>
>Just my thoughts.
>
>Love and Blessings,
>Pat Ferguson
>
>
>At 01:37 AM 12/4/2005, you wrote:
> >It hadn't occured to me to ask here but I will. I am trying to get copies
> >of some books on songwriting. And no Pat, Bookshare doesn't have them lol.
> >Neither does any other resource that I'm aware of. I read three of these
> >four books prior to losing my readable sight but want to read them again.
> >There is a total of four books I'd need scanned. Below is what I wrote
> >others who replied to a query I put on an email list. If anyone here is
> >interested please let me know and how much you would charge. Here's what I
> >wrote...
> >
> >I'm not looking for a professional job, but I  had downloaded a book from
> >Bookshare that said it was a fair scan,  and I couldn't read it without
> >editing every line that was cut short and words broken up in several pieces
> >with carriage returns. I can't have that either. They are books on
> >songwriting. "The Craft of Lyric Writing" and "Successful Lyric Writing"
> >both by Sheila Davis, as well another of hers I've not bought yet I think
> >entitled "The Song Idea Book". And one more called "Writing Better Lyrics"
> >by Pat Pattison. These are books approximately three quarters of an inch
> >thick and your normal size... 8 by 11? I'd guess. I don't have them here at
> >present. Another person was to scan them but ran into family health issues.
> >I'd like them as soon as possible. I had a few responses to my query and
> >perhaps it would be good to let one book out to each for speed of getting
> >the job done. That is if cost is reasonable, but quality is important too
> >so if one person can do that I'll gladly wait for the rest of the books to
> >be scanned. I don't know how much it ought cost so asking folks to  tell me
> >how much they'd charge. I don't have a scanner and OCR
> >software  myself  and really don't want to spend the money or time to learn
> >it right now. If you need more information I could try to find more info on
> >the books on the net but not certain they'll give page number and etc. They
> >ought be pretty much straight out text. I read them years ago when I could
> >yet see and from my recall they are pretty much flat out text other than
> >perhaps a table or two turned sideways. Thanks for your reply and please
> >let me know what you think or if you  need more info.
> >
> >Brad

Brad

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