Thread: Need tips for selling epub to libraries
View Single Post
Old 02-07-2017, 08:59 PM   #57
Cinisajoy
Just a Yellow Smiley.
Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Cinisajoy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Cinisajoy's Avatar
 
Posts: 19,161
Karma: 83862859
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Texas
Device: K4, K5, fire, kobo, galaxy
Quote:
Originally Posted by SigilBear View Post
Sorry, I had my notes mixed up. The people working on this project are http://www.gutenberg.org/

I was asking for advice on hiring people to proofread public domain books that I've scanned, hopefully for a reasonable rate. A 500-page book can take literally weeks.

Someone told me that the Gutenberg project is already doing just that. I was tempted to do a little work as a volunteer just to learn a little more about proof-reading, but I haven't had time yet.

I haven't had a chance to check out Amazon's reviews and rating system yet. I'm going to look into that right now.
Proofreading is hard work. I have seen easy books to proofread and one that took me 30 minutes to just mark the errors on page one. Those were both written by self-published authors not scanned copies.

Have you already ran them through an OCR?
There are several common reader errors to look for.
Cinisajoy is offline   Reply With Quote