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rkomar · 04-05-2014, 01:49 PM

Totally off topic: I don't mind the American spellings for flavor and neighbor, but valor just looks wrong to me (a Canadian). At first, I thought Valor's Choice was referring to some person named Valor (like Sophie's Choice).

pwalker8 · 04-06-2014, 10:50 AM

I believe that Tanya Huff is Canadian.

Fiat_Lux · 04-10-2014, 08:16 PM

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Id been holding off because the book is destroyed in the process, but eventually, one just has to move on.

Digitization and OCRing of books, without doing any damage to the book is a fairly simple process. The tool chain requires a significant amount of RAM, and disk space, though.

Tarana · 04-11-2014, 11:47 AM

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Digitization and OCRing of books, without doing any damage to the book is a fairly simple process.

Probably, but it also requires equipment purchases and a learning curve. I tried it already with my printer/scanner. It works fine for scanning craft books, but not so good for novels. Just way too many errors, so I decided to go the professional route with a place that a Mobilereads member recommended. I have only about 10 books to be OCR'd.

I'm paying $15 for 3 books to be OCR'd and searchable, two hard covers and a paperback with tiny print. I've another few days to wait until they are done. If the results are as I hope, I might even be able to convert to epub or mobi and fix the formatting myself. If not, at least I can read them on my tablet. BUT, reading it at all is the current goal. I feel a little bad, as mentioned, because the books are destroyed in the process, but I would have gotten rid of them anyway, since I was unable to read them.

Let me explain the problem with craft books vs. novels. Craft (and most cookbooks) use fonts that have a fair amount of space between the letters. Novels often have the letters quite scrunched together. I have an issue with ghosting, where I get offset images of the letters. With the spacing, it's a nonproblem. If there is no space, they all get jumbled together. So, just making it bigger doesn't really help all that much, although it can. My goal is to be able to covert to epub or mobi, where I can manipulate the font to something that is far easier for me.

Tarana · 04-11-2014, 11:37 PM

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I don't mind the American spellings for flavor and neighbor, but valor just looks wrong to me (a Canadian).

Yes, I sometimes have trouble with spelling as well between one country's spelling and another. Fortunately, I can't think of a single instance where the Brit/Can. spelling and the American spelling results in a different meaning. Colour and Color, for instance, mean the same thing. It's annoying for the spell check though.

HarryT · 04-12-2014, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Tarana

Yes, I sometimes have trouble with spelling as well between one country's spelling and another. Fortunately, I can't think of a single instance where the Brit/Can. spelling and the American spelling results in a different meaning.

There are innumerable words that have different meanings in British and American English.

Greg Anos · 04-12-2014, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

There are innumerable words that have different meanings in British and American English.

Quite right. I keep and American/British English cross dictonary (in papaer, no less!) when I'm confused...

j.p.s · 04-12-2014, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

There are innumerable words that have different meanings in British and American English.

Did you mean between rather than in? Or is in one of those words?

HarryT · 04-12-2014, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by j.p.s

Did you mean between rather than in? Or is in one of those words?

Sorry, I don't understand what you're asking.

Billi · 04-12-2014, 01:36 PM

Perhaps he asked

Did you mean between rather than in? Or is in one of those words?

HarryT · 04-12-2014, 01:40 PM

One could use either, but in this context I think "in" is the more natural choice of word.

Tarana · 04-13-2014, 12:06 PM

I totally agree with you Harry that there are differences in meaning in words between Brit/American, such as bird or boot, but what I meant was that the differences of SPELLING of such words do not indicate a completely different meaning, in my experience. Valor and Valour mean the same thing.

pwalker8 · 05-18-2014, 10:13 AM

Just as a note, 3 more Zelazny books have appeared in the kindle store - "A Dark Traveling", "Isle of the Dead, Eye of the Cat" [this is a double book], and "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of his Mouth". I hadn't read "A Dark Traveling" before. Obviously, these are some of his lesser known works, but it's good to see them starting to trickle out. Add in "Damnation Alley" and "The Last Defender of Camelot" and that makes 6 of his novels available, all in the last year.

jhowell · 06-06-2014, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by pwalker8

Just as a note, 3 more Zelazny books have appeared in the kindle store - "A Dark Traveling", "Isle of the Dead, Eye of the Cat" [this is a double book], and "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of his Mouth". I hadn't read "A Dark Traveling" before. ...

I noticed that Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber is available as a kindle book for $2.99 from Amazon US as of yesterday (June 5.) I wonder if it is being sold legally.

Calenorn · 06-06-2014, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jhowell

I noticed that Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber is available as a kindle book for $2.99 from Amazon US as of yesterday (June 5.) I wonder if it is being sold legally.

I wonder that as well. $3 is a VERY generous price. It hasn't shown up on B&N yet. Smells a little fishy to me.

On the other hand, that's new cover art, and not a bad depiction of the protagonist, at that.

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04-05-2014, 01:49 PM	#46
rkomar Wizard Posts: 3,042 Karma: 18821071 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	Totally off topic: I don't mind the American spellings for flavor and neighbor, but valor just looks wrong to me (a Canadian). At first, I thought Valor's Choice was referring to some person named Valor (like Sophie's Choice).

04-06-2014, 10:50 AM	#47
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	I believe that Tanya Huff is Canadian.

04-12-2014, 01:36 PM	#55
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	Perhaps he asked Did you mean between rather than in? Or is in one of those words?

04-12-2014, 01:40 PM	#56
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	One could use either, but in this context I think "in" is the more natural choice of word.

04-13-2014, 12:06 PM	#57
Tarana Wizard Posts: 4,030 Karma: 38840460 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	I totally agree with you Harry that there are differences in meaning in words between Brit/American, such as bird or boot, but what I meant was that the differences of SPELLING of such words do not indicate a completely different meaning, in my experience. Valor and Valour mean the same thing.

05-18-2014, 10:13 AM	#58
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	Just as a note, 3 more Zelazny books have appeared in the kindle store - "A Dark Traveling", "Isle of the Dead, Eye of the Cat" [this is a double book], and "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of his Mouth". I hadn't read "A Dark Traveling" before. Obviously, these are some of his lesser known works, but it's good to see them starting to trickle out. Add in "Damnation Alley" and "The Last Defender of Camelot" and that makes 6 of his novels available, all in the last year.