Lightfoot is a delightful little goat who jumps from one adventure to another, some heroic some just mischief, but always a lot of fun; This is one of the Kneetime Animal Stories series written under the name of Richard Barnum. ( Larry Wilson)
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mleigh wrote: ↑December 4th, 2020, 11:51 am
What fun. Can I be early and ask for Chapter VI, Lightfoot Butts a Boy? Or, will I get my hand smacked for my forwardness?
silverquill wrote: ↑December 4th, 2020, 11:44 am NOTE: Do NOT read picture captions. Some of these mistakenly appear in the text of the story, so ignore them and connect the text.
Hi Larry,
I'm always glad to see one of the ebooks I've produced with Distributed Proofreaders become an audio selection at LibriVox. Thanks for running this project.
I was surprised to see the above comment in first post. Could you clarify what you mean by this? I'd like to ensure that there are no mistakes in the ebook itself, that need correction. So far as I remember, all the illustration captions are also text in the content, so I'm a little confused.
Thank you,
Don (DACSoft)
Bringing the Baseball Joe series to audio!
And not to butt in (pun intended ), but it does look like the picture captions are actually part of the text. I noted a few places where it wouldn't make sense to skip that sentence. The confusing part is the fact that they are hyperlinked, I think.
Ah, that may be. In my ebook projects, I hyperlink the passage in the text to the corresponding illustration, with a cross-link back from the illustration's caption to its location in the text, for the convenience of the reader to look at the illustration when they get to that part in the book (and vice versa).
Don (DACSoft)
Bringing the Baseball Joe series to audio!
I was surprised to see the above comment in first post. Could you clarify what you mean by this? I'd like to ensure that there are no mistakes in the ebook itself, that need correction. So far as I remember, all the illustration captions are also text in the content, so I'm a little confused.
Thank you,
Ok, I stand corrected!
I had never seen this format before, where the picture captions were taken from the text, and in at least one instance being just part of a sentence. And when they appeared in highlighted text, they looked like misplaced captions. On first reading, it didn't seem to make much sense, but on closer look I see that they are just part of the text. So, I have removed that part of the instructions.
Thank you so much for the alert and keeping me from such a blunder.
I just looked at this and noticed that you put me down for a different section than the one I requested. I would like to do Chapter 6. I don't mind doing the other one as well (chapter 10) as I do enjoy these books, but I had wanted to give other people a chance to read a chapter.
), but it does look like the picture captions are actually part of the text. I noted a few places where it wouldn't make sense to skip that sentence. The confusing part is the fact that they are hyperlinked, I think. 
