Bookshare Proofreading Guidelines

Table of Contents
Proofreading Volunteer Opportunity Description
Getting Started
* Create a volunteer account with Bookshare
* Read the Proofreading Guidelines
Checking out a Book
Steps to Follow in Every Book
Things that Books Must Have
* Title Page
* Copyright Information
* Page Numbers and Page Breaks
When to Reject a Book
Formatting
* Page breaks
* Blank pages, spaces and lines
* Table of Contents
* Font
* Font modifiers
* Word Spacing
* Paragraphs
* Chapter Headings
Punctuation and Special Characters
* Asterisks
* Ellipses
* Quotes
* Dashes
* Symbols which convert correctly
* Fractions
* Superscript/Subscript
Tables
Things to be Removed or Amended 
* Scanning errors
* Sample list of common scannos
* Symbols that can't be converted and must be removed
* Garbage Characters
* Tabs
* Images
* Charts/Figures/Shapes
Protecting Repeated Text in Poetry and Children's Books
Footnotes (See Glossary) and Endnotes (See Glossary)
Sidebars and Boxed Text (See Glossary)
Scanners' Notes
Auto generated lists
End Matter
Checking in a Completed Book
Glossary
Appendix
* Keystrokes for Accents
* Three Ways to Correct Scannos
* Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts (hotkeys)
* How to Customize Microsoft Word Auto Correction Options
* How to Change Paper Size in MS Word
* Spell Catcher Can't Catch 'Em

Proofreading Volunteer Opportunity Description
1. When books are scanned and converted to text, there are always errors or "scannos" (See Glossary) that result. Bookshare volunteers detect and correct errors and formatting so that books are usable with a variety of assistive devices--from screen readers to digital braille devices. A computer with internet access, word processing software, and a talent for pinpointing detail are all you need! The most reliable proofreading (See Glossary) can only be attained by reading the book.
2. The process for proofreading for Bookshare is different than traditional proofreading done in literature classes. For the most part, books need to closely resemble the original printed book and the changes we make are to correct the scanning errors and to ensure accessibility by changing of some of the formatting, such as specific font sizes (See Glossary) and bolding for chapter headings.
3. No manual can cover every possible scenario so you are encouraged to address the friendly, helpful, experienced volunteers on the Bookshare Volunteer email list with questions that arise as you read the manual and proofread.

Getting Started

Create a volunteer account with Bookshare
1. Sign up to volunteer by clicking on the Sign Up button at https://www.bookshare.org/cms/get-involved/volunteer/opportunities-us and filling out the forms. The approval process is done by a staff member so it won't be instantaneous.
a. If you have an existing Bookshare member account, you can add volunteer status to your existing account by selecting "I have a Bookshare account already."
2. Once we receive and approve your volunteer request, you will receive an email notification that you can get started. This may take a few days.

Read the Proofreading Guidelines
1. Fully read this manual to understand how to proofread books for Bookshare.
2. Review the headings so you will know where to study in detail as questions arise during your proofreading. 
3. Once you have reviewed this manual, you are ready to check-out your first book to proofread.

Checking out a Book
1. Go to My Volunteer Home and click on check out a book (at https://www.bookshare.org/cms/get-involved/volunteer/my-volunteer-home)
2. Select a book from the list provided. You can search for a specific book by title or author.
3. Some books have special indications in the title of the book:
a. Hold for (name) in the title means that this book is reserved for the volunteer named. Never check out a book that says Hold for unless it's your name.
b. BSO in the title of a book stands for Better Scan of indicating that this book will replace a lower-quality book that is already in the collection. You may check out BSO books. They are proofread just as any other book. When you check out a BSO title, always retain the BSO in the title when checking it in.
c. Wish List in the title of a book means that this book has been requested by a Bookshare Member and scanned by Bookshare staff or volunteers. Sighted proofreaders can request the PDF (see glossary) to reference while proofreading from a staff scanned book. Email volunteers@bookshare.org to request the PDF.
4. Use the advance search to make sure the book you've chosen isn't already in the collection. Search by
a. title
b. author: Complex author names may be spelling, case and punctuation sensitive. If you don't find the author's name one way, try alternate capitalization and punctuation.
c. ISBN (See Glossary)
5. Also check:
a. Books in process page
b. Books awaiting approval page
6. View a book's summary page by clicking on the title.
7. Once you have chosen a book, select the check-out link and download it to a folder you'll remember.
8. You have 14 days to proofread before you must check the book back in and delete it from your computer. If you need more time you can renew a book at your My Checked Out Books, a link found on My Volunteer Home Page.
9. The book is an rtf (see glossary) file. Word processors you use to proofread must retain the elements of the rtf file. Your job is to make sure the book fulfills all the checklist requirements. You must check in the proofread book in rtf format.
Tip: For sighted volunteers, if you're using Microsoft Word it may be easier to use Draft View for proofreading because it shows the types of breaks that are in the book. Go to the "view" tab and select "draft."

Steps to Follow in Every Book
1. Read the entire book.
2. If the book isn't a BSO, check that the book isn't already in the collection. If it is, reject it.
3. Adjust fonts for navigation.
4. Number all pages removing any headers.
5. Correct Scannos as you go.
6. Run a spell check checking any questionable results in context.
7. You are not a copy editor. You must retain any errors overlooked by the publisher.
8. Keep this manual and refer to it as you proofread.

Things that Books Must Have
Title Page
1. The title page is the first page with the title, the author and often the publisher. This doesn't always apply to children's books.
2. Make the title font size 20 point and make the font bold.
a. For book titles and chapter names over 65 characters including spaces:
(1). If there is a colon in the title add a paragraph mark after the colon and put everything on the second line size 14 point and bold.
(2). If there is no colon, add one after the chapter number or before the subtitle. 
3. Make the author's name and any other text size 12 and unbolded font.
4. If the title appears on any other page treat it as regular text with size 12 unbolded font.

Copyright Information
1. The copyright page may include one of the following:
a. The copyright symbol ©
b. The word copyright
c. The abbreviation cpr
d. Creative Commons
e. Public Domain
2. If the book's copyright page does not contain any one of the previous items (as is the case for many older books):
a. Contact the scanner to get the information.
b. Older books that may not have all the copyright information needed sometimes fall under Public Domain.
c. If you are unsure about the copyright information, please contact volunteers@bookshare.org to confirm.
3. In children's books the copyright page is often at the back of the book.

Page Numbers and Page Breaks
1. A page number must be on every page and correspond with the page numbers in the original book.
a. If page numbers are not on every page, the Bookshare conversion software may incorrectly re-number all the pages based on the page breaks.
b. A good way to check that page numbers correspond with the book's is to make sure the chapter headings are on the same pages the table of contents indicates.
2. If the front and back covers or dust flaps have been scanned and formatted as pages, these pages must be numbered and placed at the beginning of the book. 
a. Sometimes the scanner will have placed these pages at the end of the book. In that case, move those pages to the beginning. 
3. Page numbers must be located on either the first or the last line of the page. Keeping placement of page numbers consistent and at the tops of pages is preferred.
4. Page numbers must be the only character on a line.
5. Don't use Microsoft Word's header or footer function to place page numbers.
6. If page numbers are not present, volunteers must type the page numbers themselves.
a. In children's books of 50 pages or less that don't have any page numbers, don't add them.
7. Auto-numbering by Microsoft Word will not be recognized by the converter (See Glossary).
8. Rarely a book has a group of unnumbered pages, often of images, which are not included in the numbering sequence. Cut those pages, move them to the end of the book, paste them there and begin numbering from the last page preceding them.
9. Sometimes the first few pages of the book are not numbered but the rest of the book is. When this happens there are two different possible scenarios:
a. If page numbers start with 1 then number the preceding pages with lower case Roman numerals, starting with i until you reach the page numbered 1.
b. If page numbering starts with a 2 or higher, number the preceding pages until you get back to 1. Then number any remaining preceding pages with lower case Roman numerals, starting with i until you reach the page numbered 1.
c. If the book contains Roman numerals, retain them and number previous pages in upper or lower case Roman numerals matching those established in the book. If you run out of pages before reaching Roman numeral one, don't worry about it.
10. If the pagination (See Glossary) is strange in the printed book, please make a note of it in the comments section and reach out to the scanner or volunteers@bookshare.org to help clarify any questions.

When to reject a book
1. If the book doesn't have at least 90% of its page breaks and you can't determine where those page breaks are and insert them yourself.
2. If a book came from an eBook (See Glossary) or is an EPUB book. Often the ISBN will indicate it is an eBook. If you think you have an eBook, contact volunteers@bookshare.org and ask for help.
3. If the book is a play or a dramatic work.
4. If it is an advance prepublication copy of a book.
5. If the book has missing pages and the submitter can't supply them.
6. If there are more than a couple of passages of garbled text that can't be fixed.
7. If most page numbers are missing and can't be figured out. 
8. If the copyright information is missing and can't be obtained.
9. If the book has footnotes but the footnote indicator (See Glossary) numbers are missing.
10. If most sentences are incorrectly broken by paragraph marks or there are no paragraph marks.

Formatting
Page breaks
1. Every page must end with a hard page break.
2. Including a blank line before or after the page break is unnecessary.
3. Sometimes the OCR (See Glossary) software indicates new pages as section breaks. Replace section breaks with hard page breaks.
4. Add missing hard page breaks.
a. Checking page numbers may help determine if a page break is missing.
b. If the page is unusually long or you are unsure about the location of a page break, contact the scanner to verify.
5. If the only text on a page is a table make sure there is a title and page number or add the word table in brackets: [table] 
6. If a soft page break occurs increase the page length for the entire book.

Blank pages, spaces and lines
1. Include all blank pages by numbering them and writing [blank page] on them so it is clear that no information is missing and page numbers remain consistent.
2. A single underscore should be used to represent a blank space that the author includes in the text. Example: Use a _ to tighten a screw.
a. When underscores in the text designate a specific number of words or letters insert that number of underscores separated by spaces.
--Example: Fill in the missing letters p e r _ _ n. Answer p e r s o n. The 2 underscores are used to represent two missing letters
--Example: Write your first name, middle initial and last name. _ _ _ for Ulysses S. Grant.
3. Don't use spacing or tabbing to format the text as our converter automatically removes extra blank spaces, tabs and blank lines.]
4. Globally replace tabs with a single space.
5. When a break in the text represents a change in scene, topic or time, type asterisk space asterisk space asterisk or the blank line will be removed. Be sure to insert spaces between asterisks. Example: * * *
6. When a blank line separates poetry stanzas, block quotes, correspondence, a sign, a newspaper headline, or other short passages, type a single asterisk to denote the separation.

Table of Contents
1. Keep the table of contents as text. If it is in table format, convert it to text.
2. After each heading type three periods and a space before the page number.
3. Examples
a. PREFACE... vii
b. Chapter 1. CALCUTTA... 1
c. Chapter 2. The Birthday Surprise... 12
4. If the table of contents has the chapters but no page numbers, locate the chapters in the body of the book and add their page numbers where needed.

Font
1. Tahoma, Arial and Times New Roman are recommended. If you are proofreading visually, Tahoma and Arial may be easier to read. Do not use custom or obscure fonts, as these don't exist on some computers.
2. General text in the book should be size 12. This size should be used throughout the book except for:
a. TITLE: 20 point and bold only on the title page and nowhere else.
b. BOOKS or PARTS: 18 point and bold.
c. CHAPTERS: 16 point and bold. This includes titles such as acknowledgements, introduction, notes, Other Books by the Author, epilogue, glossary, and index.
d. SUBCHAPTERS or SUBSECTIONS: 14 point and bold.
e. Recipe titles 14 point and bold.
f. Poem titles must be size 14 and bold when they occur within chapters or size 16 and bold in poetry books when they are the chapter titles.

Font Modifiers
a. Make sure that the ENTIRE WORD is bolded (bolded), italicized (italicized), underlined (underlined) or crossed through (crossed through). Otherwise the word will be converted into two words (the modified part will be separated from the rest of the word).
b. Random bolding and italicizing happens when software misinterprets the text when scanning. If the word is not one that you would emphasize when speaking aloud, it probably should not be italicized or bolded.
c. When italicized text is also bolded, unbold it unless it occurs in titles formatted for navigation.
d. If bolding or italics start partway through a sentence, they most likely should be removed, unless a specific word or phrase is emphasized as in: She said it was for me. 
3. Bolding and italics of whole pages should be removed unless they are part of italicized letters, flashbacks, poetry or text otherwise emphasized by the author, which can be determined through context.
f. When proofreading in BRF (See Glossary), there is no indicator of any of the above font modifiers.

Word Spacing
1. Check that any squished-together words are separated correctly. This happens frequently with italicized and smaller fonts.
a. Example: "Her Highness loved thecolor blue". Separate "thecolor" into two words so it says "the color blue".
2. Check that separated words are connected correctly.
a. Example: "He wanted to dis-appear from the classroom." Remove the dash and make "disappear" into one word.
3. Sometimes when the book is printed, a word will be split between two pages and connected with a hyphen. If this happens, move the end of the split word to the page above along with any punctuation immediately following it. Make sure to keep the page break.

Paragraphs
1. Search the entire book for " " (quote space quote). This almost always indicates a missing hard paragraph break. If you have determined through context this is so, add the hard paragraph mark.
2. Sometimes scanning inserts paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences. Here is how to find and correct them. This is a 26 step process. In the find box search for paragraph mark, in word ^p followed immediately by the lower case letter a (make sure your search is case sensitive) Ignore those results that are the first word of the first line on the page. Read each of the rest of the results in context deleting the paragraph break and replacing it with a space where appropriate. Repeat this for each subsequent letter of the alphabet.

Chapter Headings

Punctuation and Special Characters
Asterisks
1. Always place spaces between multiple asterisks.

Ellipsis "..."
1. There should be no space preceding the ellipsis (See Glossary), no spaces between the periods, and a single space following the ellipsis, unless it is followed by additional punctuation.
2. To globally correct some of the ellipses:
a. In the find field type: space period space period space period space 
Replace with: period period period space 
b. When there is a space between the ellipsis and the quote at the end of a sentence or phrase: 
In the find field type: period period period space quote 
Replace with: period period period quote
c. If there is a space between the ellipsis and other punctuation, including the question mark, the single end quote, the comma and the exclamation mark, do the following:
search for period period period space comma
Replace with period period period comma
d. Do the same, substituting other punctuation marks for the comma, including the question mark, the final single quote and the exclamation mark.
3. You can find additional incorrectly formatted ellipses in a book by searching for a blank space followed by a period
4. If the ellipsis is at the end of a sentence, the period should follow it with no space before the period so that there are four dots "periods" in a row: ....
6. Search for period space period to find instances where the fourth period is spaced in front or after the ellipses.
7. Ultimately some types of ellipsis errors are only found in context as you read the books.

Quotes
1. When a speaker is quoting someone else represented by "' or '" if there is a space between these punctuation marks, remove them. " space ' (" ') must be "' with no space between them.
2. When a quote is followed by a word of dialect which begins with an ' there must be no space between the " and '. example, " 'Tis should be "'Tis.
3. When items within a sentence in a list are enclosed in quotes, retain them. Example "Gone with the Wind" "Hop on Pop". Do not remove the space between these quoted items or place them on separate lines.

Dashes
1. Globally replace Em-dash (—) (See Glossary) with two dashes in a row (--). Copy the Em dash into the search field and type -- in the replace field and then replace all.
2. There must be no spaces between -- or - (hyphen ) and the text and punctuation that surround them.
3. To check that no spaces remain before or after double dashes, a two step process: 
a. Search for "space dash dash" and replace with "dash dash". 
b. Then search for "dash dash space" and replace with "dash dash"
Perform these operations without the quotes.

Symbols Which Convert Correctly
1. Degree symbol as in temperature: 78°
2. Copyright: ©
3. At sign: @
4. Trademark: ™ 
5. Registered: ®
6. British pound: £
7. number sign: #
8. Japanese yen: ¥
9. Cents: ¢
10. Division: ÷
11. Plus and/or minus signs: ±
12. Quotation marks: "
13. Single (smart quotes) are converted to apostrophes.
14. Double smart quotes will be converted to regular double quotation marks.

Fractions
1. Fractions must be written in normal font as in 1/4, not in super and subscript or a single graphical character
2. Mixed numbers should be written with a dash between the number and the fraction, as in 5-3/4

Superscript/Subscript
1. Retain super script and subscript as it occurs correctly in the book as determined by context, if possible.

Tables
1. Keep tables as tables. 
2. If the only text on a page is in table format, put the title of the table in text outside the table and above it.
3. If there is no title on a table, write [table] outside the table at the top in regular text.
4. If the table is very simple--one row or one column--consider changing it to text, as it will be much easier to read in Braille or to listen to.

Things to be Removed or Amended

Scanning errors
1. Even the best scan-to-text technology will result in occasional errors. This is one of the reasons we read every scanned book to proofread thoroughly and accurately.
a. Example: He was eating combread should be He was eating cornbread. / enjoy this should be I enjoy this. Don't he should be Don't lie. See die ducks should be See the ducks.
2. Sometimes during scanning the edges of pages are cut off causing scannos like:
a. left margin omissions: ne for me, he for she, :an for can,
b. Right margin omissions bu for but, neve for never, anc for and., wh; for why.
c. Punctuation like , . and - at the right margin can be cut off.

Sample list of common scannos
1. The following are interchangeably misrecognized 1, !, /, l, I, i.
2. cl for d, or d for cl.
3. Often a hyphen will be missing in a string of words. Example: "rough-and-tumble" will become roughand-tumble or rough-andtumble.
4. vv for w or w for vv.
5. ii for ü or U for ll.
6. urn for um or rn for m.
7. v for y.
8. lo for b or ol for d.
9. d for tl.
10. f for t for r for i.
11. ill for 111.
12. q for g.
13. C for G or e for c.
14. '' for ".
15. h for b or b for h.
16. fr for h.
17 T for 'I or "I
18. Missing comma or period after y or w
19. 'Y or 'T for "Y or "T
20. '' for "
21. space for ' in words: don t for don't can t for can't

Symbols that can't be converted and must be removed
1. Dagger † and Double Daggers ‡ for footnotes. Replace † with ** and ‡ with ***.
2. Bullets • If bullets are part of a list replace them with asterisks.
3. Upside down punctuation, as in Spanish ¡¿.
4. Non-Roman alphabets are sometimes recognized but rarely read, with the exception of more common Greek letters.

Garbage Characters
1. Sometimes the scanner will translate dust or stains on the book pages to strings of gibberish. These are called "garbage characters" and should be deleted. If you're unsure, contact the scanner.
2. Garbage characters are often garbled headers, random punctuation or isolated single letters.
3 This is a partial list of garbage characters which, when found, can be copied into the find field and replaced with space.
a. <
b. >
c. • check context to determine if should be converted to asterisk or removed.
d. §
e. ^
f. «
g. »
h. |
i. ¦

Tabs
1. The converter will delete all tabs, and won't replace them with anything.
2. Globally replace tabs with a space.
3. If the document automatically adds an indent at the top of the page, indents all the text, or indents some of the paragraph, ignore it because the converter will delete these indents.
4. Don't create tabs and blank spaces to duplicate margin spacing as it appears in a print book.

Images
1. You may find only remnants of images that partially scanned from a book such as clusters of junk characters or garbled text. Delete them if they are the only characters on a page and write [Image removed.]
a. Writing [Image removed] is not necessary for insignificant images that are not relevant to the plot like publishers' logos and decorative graphics.
2. Describing images:
a. You may include image description written in complete sentences and placed in square brackets.
b. Put the description where the image is in the text, unless the image appears in the middle of a sentence or paragraph. In that case, move the description to immediately after the sentence or paragraph.
c. Precede the description with the word image: Don't write explanations for why you are describing the image.
d. Be objective
--example: Rather than writing [Image: A boy pounds his fists, jumps with excitement, and shrieks happily.], write: [Image: A boy jumps into the air with his hands balled into fists overhead. He is smiling with an open mouth.] You don't know that he's happy, but by describing his smile, the reader can assume it. You also don't know that he's shrieking, but by describing his open mouth, the reader can assume it.
e. Keep it concise. Especially in books for very young children, don't let your descriptions overwhelm the text.
f. If there are no details in an image which aren't already described in the text, don't describe it.
g. Keep the vocabulary in your description close to the vocabulary level used by the author. (If the book is targeted for second graders to read, use second grade vocabulary in your description.)
3. If the image has a caption, keep it.
a. Write [caption] followed by a space before the captioned text.
--example [caption] A portrait of Abraham Lincoln carefully proofreading the Gettysburg Address.

Charts/Figures/Shapes
1. When these are present and can't be described remove and replace with [Chart Removed] [Figure Removed] or [Shape Removed].
2. If the chart/figure has a title or description, retain it but put brackets around the word chart or figure: [chart] 3.2 Dinosaur Species [Figure] 3 Population Growth.
3. Smart Art
a. Inserting Smart Art works in RTF but is not converted in DAISY (See Glossary).

Protecting Repeated Text in Poetry and Children's Books
Sometimes, usually in poetry and children's books, a book's text has the same phrase repeated. If that phrase is the first sentence or last sentence on consecutive multiple pages, the Bookshare converter might think it's a running header or running footer, and remove it from the book.
The easiest way to prevent this is:
a. put three asterisks in a row right above the phrase on every page it occurs if it's at the top of a page;
b. put three asterisks in a row right after the phrase on every page it occurs if it's at the bottom of a page.
Be sure to insert spaces between asterisks. (i.e., * * *)
EXAMPLE: shows the phrase at the bottom of two consecutive pages:
A book has:
"Come inside, Mr. Bird," said the mouse.
"I'll show you what there is in a People House...
[page break]
"Come inside, Mr. Rabbit, said the mouse.
"I'll show you what there is in a People House...
Change this to:
"Come inside, Mr. Bird," said the mouse.
"I'll show you what there is in a People House...
* * *
[page break]
"Come inside, Mr. Rabbit, said the mouse.
"I'll show you what there is in a People House...
* * *

Footnotes and Endnotes
1. A Footnote is usually located at the bottom of a page. A corresponding footnote indicator, usually an asterisk, dagger, double dagger, or number is present in the text.
2. When the footnote indicator in the text is a number with a corresponding numbered footnote at the bottom of the page:
a. The footnote indicator utilizing a number in the text should be superscripted, if possible.
b. There must be a space before and after the superscripted number.
c. The number for the footnote at the bottom of the page isn't superscripted.
1) Example: Mary had a little lamb 3 which followed her.
At the bottom of the page the footnote says: 3. A lamb is a baby sheep.
2) If the footnote indicator is a dagger replace it within the text with two superscripted asterisks with no space between them followed by a space. If they are the last characters at the end of a paragraph, don't put a space after them. At the bottom of the page replace the dagger with two asterisks in regular font with no space between them followed by a space and the text of the footnote.
3. If the footnote indicator is a double dagger replace it within the text with three superscripted asterisks with no space between them followed by a space. If they are the last characters at the end of a paragraph, don't put a space after them. At the bottom of the page replace the double dagger with three asterisks in regular font with no space between them followed by a space and the text of the footnote.
TIP: Most of the time daggers aren't recognized by the OCR. The single dagger is often misrecognized as lower case f, + or t. Double daggers may appear as capital H or other random characters.
4. If the footnote indicator is one, two or more asterisks, superscript them with no space between them followed by a space. If they are the last characters at the end of a paragraph, don't put a space after them. At the bottom of the page the asterisks must be in regular font with no space between them followed by a space and the text of the footnote.
5. Do not use Word's footer function to create the footnote.
TIP: The BRF format doesn't show footnote indicators in superscript. To complete preparing the book, load the document as an RTF file to a word processor where you can superscript them.
6. Separate the text of the actual footnote from the text of the rest of the page by adding a line with three asterisks on it after the text and before the footnote or footnotes. Make sure to put spaces between the asterisks (Example: * * *).
The footnotes should not be in square brackets (as they were prior to this new and updated standard). Do not add the word "footnote" or any other similar descriptive text prior to the footnotes.
7. Endnotes are footnotes located at the end of the chapters or the end of the book instead of at the bottoms of pages.
a. Format the endnote heading at the end of a chapter as a subsection, size 14 point and bold.
b. Format the endnote heading at the end of the book, often titled Notes, size 16 and bold. If these are divided by chapters, place the chapter headings in size 14 point and bold.
8. In the unusual case where an em-dash precedes or follows a footnote indicator, keep the space between the footnote indicator number and the em-dash (instead of removing the space as is usually done with an em-dash).

Sidebars and Boxed Text
1. The Sidebar and the boxed text are used most often in textbooks to emphasize important points or add supplemental information to the text.
2. Put the word sidebar or the word box in brackets followed by a space before its text.
a. example: [Sidebar] It is important to read every word of the book.
3. Because of their placement on the page, text with sidebars is often garbled. For example the text from the sidebar may appear in the middle of several lines. In some cases it may not be possible to reconstruct the sidebar but if you can, then treat it as described above.
4. Place the sidebar or boxed text at the end of a sentence or paragraph.

Scanners' Notes
1. Scanners may make notes in the document if something is intentionally put there by the author, for example a misspelled word. These notes are usually in brackets
a. Example: [Scanner's Note: Intentionally Misspelled word].
b. These notes must be deleted out of the file before the file is checked in
2. Scanners also leave explanatory notes in the book history. Proofreaders must read these notes.
3. Locating the book history:
a. Click on the book title in my checked out books.
b. Click on the "view book history" link.
c. To find the scanner's note search for the words, "submit initial volunteer file".
d. Read the notes left for the proofreader, or, if there are no notes, go back to proofreading. 
e. In the same paragraph with the scanner's notes is the scanner's name or nickname. Enter on this and a window opens where you can write a message to the scanner.

Auto generated lists
1. Auto-generated lists occur when your word processor automatically distinguishes a list of information, either using letters, numbers or bullets.
2. When you are proofreading make sure you have the option to create autoformatted lists off. Instructions for how to do this are in the appendix.

End Matter
1 Bibliographies, notes, appendices indexes and glossaries need not be proofread but must be retained.
2. Proofreading this material is encouraged as the content is appreciated by readers.
3. Booklists and preview material are informative and entertaining to readers. Though all of this may not scan, retain any of the content that makes sense.
4. Indexes are often long and contain soft page breaks. Do not number the soft page breaks.
5. Number all end matter pages which lack numbers.

Checking in a completed book
1. From "My Volunteer Home" go to "My Checked Out Books". Here you will find a list of books that you've been proofreading.
2. Next to the title of the book you have finished, click "check in" and a new page will appear with more instructions.
3. Activate the browse button by clicking on it or by pressing enter. Select your proofread file.
4. Next fill out the comments field. 
a. Required. Your computer's operating system such as : Windows, Mac, Linux or other (Please specify)
b. Required. Your proofreading software such as: Microsoft Word, Word for Mac, Kurzweil 1000, OpenBook, Other (please specify)
c. Add any comments that will aid staff in processing your book such as: pointing out the presence of dialects, foreign languages, numerous editors' errors you've left in place, and problems in the book you are doubtful you fixed correctly or didn't know how to correct.
5. Next activate the Continue button by clicking on it or by pressing enter. At this point your proofread file will upload so it may take a few minutes before you're presented with the next page.
6. Once your book has uploaded you will be on the book information page. In the first field check that the ISBN is correct if there is one.
7. The title field:
a. Capitalize all words in the book's title for the title field except words such as: and, to, in, the, and of unless these words are the first word in the title.
b. Or use the capitalization for the title as it appears on Amazon or Good Reads which are the gold standard for correct titles preferred by Bookshare.
c. If the scanner placed a hold for you before the title of the book, please remove it.
d. If the staff left a hold followed by rev 1, 2, etc. leave it in the title.
e. Never remove BSO from the title.
f. Place the number of a book in a series in parenthesis after the title. Example: Busy Bodies (Claire Malloy Mystery #10).
g. If you suspect your book is part of a series go to Fantastic fiction, Amazon or Good Reads. Add the information you find to the title field.
8. Author field:
a. The author's name must appear as it is written on the book's title page.
b. Place commas between the names of multiple authors.
c. Don't place a comma between an author's name and its' appendages such as editor, Ph.D. or M.D.
d. Omit the illustrator's name.
8. Language: Make sure only English is selected unless the entire book is in another language.
9. Make sure the quality field says excellent.
10. The name of the copyright holder in the copyright field must match the name written in the book.
11. Check that the copyright date matches that in the book. If there are multiple copyrights, use the most recent.
a. In anthologies, use the single copyright date if one is given, otherwise use the most recent of the multiple copyrights of the entries.
12. What is written in the publisher field should match the publisher named in the book.
13. Brief Synopsis: write NA
14. Complete Synopsis
a. When possible use the book's synopsis scanned from the back cover or dust jacket flaps.
b. Never use quotes in the book that were provided to promote the book.
c. You can use the synopsis already in the field. Be sure to proofread it carefully as it often contains typos, incorrect spacing and improper punctuation.
d. delete attributed quotes and HTML code from supplied synopsis. HTML example [&385]
e. If no synopsis exists, copy the synopsis from Amazon.com. Never use information from customer reviews, publishers like Library Journal or other individuals.
15. For the Number of pages field, write the number equal to the highest Arabic page in your book. You may have to replace 0 or an incorrect number to supply the accurate page number.
16. Adult content:
a. Only check this box on the very rare occasions the book would not be readily available to any customer at an ordinary bookstore or library.
b. Don't check this box based on your personal opinion.
c. Occasionally Bookshare's software, which examines a book for adult content based on a formula, results in a book being incorrectly checked as having adult content. Uncheck the adult content box after proofreading the book if it meets the conditions in part a.
17. Categories:
a. Check up to 4 categories that apply.
b. After having read the book you'll be in a better position to know which categories to check or uncheck that reflect the book's content.
c. Review all categories, unchecking any which don't apply.
--examples:
1) When fiction and nonfiction are both checked.
2) When children and teens are both checked and the book is clearly for one age group or the other.
18. Image descriptions:
a. This box should only be checked if the image descriptions add to the understanding of the book.
b. If only a book's cover has been thoroughly described the book doesn't qualify to have image descriptions checked.
19. Click "check in book"

Glossary: terms as applied to proofreading for Bookshare
boxed text: text set apart from the primary text in a graphic box.
BRF: Braille Ready Format. Standard contracted braille. BRF files may be used to produce hard copy (embossed) braille or read with a refreshable braille display.
Converter: the software tool Bookshare uses to convert rtf and other files to the books members download in DAISY and braille formats.
DAISY: Digital Accessible Information System. DAISY is a digital format for accessible materials. DAISY provides the capability to distribute books digitally with powerful indexing and bookmarking to easily move quickly from one part of a book to another. 
EBook: an electronic edition of a book, such as EPUB or PDF.
ellipsis: three periods in a row without spaces between. They indicate missing or interrupted text
em dash: a symbol twice the length of a dash, punctuation that mainly signals the interruption of an idea. Convert it to double dashes.
en dash: the length of one and a half dashes, punctuation to use instead of to or through between dates. Convert it to a dash. sample end result 1935-1970
Endnote: numbered citations of additional information located at the end of each chapter or at the end of the book.
Font size given in points: determines the size of the letters, higher numbers indicating larger size.
font style: appearance of the text such as bold, italics and bold italic.
font type: the type of the print in the document such as Aerial, Tahoma or Times New Roman.
footnote: Text usually located at the bottom of a page containing additional information about a passage or word in the text marked by its corresponding number or symbol.
footnote indicator: superscripted number or symbol used in the text to indicate a footnote.
ISBN: International Standard Book Number: a unique numeric commercial book identifier assigned to each edition and variation of a book.
OCR: optical character recognition. the process by which printed text is turned into electronic text.
pagination: placing page numbers and their accompanying page breaks in proper sequence.
PDF: Portable Document format, a file format created by Adobe Systems which captures in electronic form all the elements of a printed document. It will display on a computer screen exactly how as document is supposed to look when it is printed
out. It is not permitted to submit PDF files of books to Bookshare for addition into
the collection.
proofreading: reading through an entire book making sure scannos are corrected and all of the elements required by Bookshare are present.
RTF: Rich Text Format, a file format created by Microsoft which most other word processors can read and edit. It contains all the elements such as page breaks, font type and style, among other things, that are needed for a Bookshare file. It does not contain all the codes that more advanced word processors use (those codes are either ignored or cause problems for the Bookshare conversion software).
Running header: The book’s title, author, or chapter name printed at the top of each page.
Running footer: The book’s title, author or chapter name printed at the bottom of each page. 
scanno: a typographical error introduced by optical character recognition software which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape.

Appendix
Keystrokes for accents
1. Make sure your keyboard language is set to American English.
2. acute = CONTROL + ' then the letter
3. c cedilla = CONTROL + comma then c
4. circumflex = CONTROL + shift 6, then the letter.
5. grav = CONTROL +` (the key to the left of the 1) then the letter
6. ny (Spanish accent) CONTROL +shift grav then n
7. umlaut = CONTROL + shift then semicolon then the letter
8. When adding an accent to a capitalized letter use the same keystrokes followed by shift with the letter.

Three Ways to Correct Scannos
1. Correct the scanno in context as you read: example change exacdy to exactly.
2. If you suspect there are more than one occurrence of the scanno like exacdy, type it in the find box. Press enter. Then press escape. Read the word you found in context and fix it. Repeat this until no more occurrences are found and return to the place where you first found the scanno. 
3. A faster method is to bring up the find and replace box. Type exacdy in the find field and exactly in the replace field and press alt a to replace them all. be careful to check your typing. If you make a mistake, all of the scannos will be replaced by the word that will contain your error. You can't be sure this works for all scannos. For example, if you replace the scanno die with the correct word the, you will turn instances where the correct word die is correct but you will have turned it into the. Use the global replace with caution.
Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts (hotkeys)
1. f7 starts spellcheck 
2. font selection, for highlighted part of or whole book: CONTROL with d. There will be 3 drop down menus.
a. In the font type (see glossary) drop down: arrow down or type in font name like Arial, Tahoma or Times New Roman. Tab to 
b. the font style (see glossary) drop down: arrow down to select regular, italic, bold or bold italic or leave this field blank. Tab to 
c. font size: arrow down or up to select, or type size number
d. Change only a. b. or c. above as needed. Tab over anything you wish to stay the same. 
3. Finding and/or replacing text
a. find: CONTROL with f 
b. find and replace: CONTROL with h 
c. Cancel find or find and replace: Press ESCAPE
d. Repeat find: after closing the Find or the Find and Replace window: hold down ALT and CONTROL with y (This is a great time saver.)
4. page breaks
a. add a page break: CONTROL with enter 
b. delete the page break: press delete when the cursor is at the beginning of the first line of the page just below the page break to be deleted.
5. Selecting (highlighting) text
a. Select page breaks type caret m in the find box. useful when checking that page numbers are there while working on or before checking in a book. 
b. Select text by letter: hold down SHIFT and use the left or right arrow key to move the cursor 
or hold down SHIFT and use numpad 4 or 6
c. Select text by word: CONTROL with SHIFT then press the right or left arrow 
or CONTROL with SHIFT and numpad 4 or 6
d Select to the end of a line: press SHIFT and the END key 
or Shift and numpad 2
e Select to the beginning of a line: press SHIFT and the HOME key 
or SHIFT and numpad 8
f. Select by whole line: With the cursor at the beginning of the line, press CONTROL and up or down arrow
or CONTROL SHIFT numpad 8 for up and 2 for down
g. Select by paragraph: CONTROL with SHIFT then press up or down arrow 
or CONTROL with SHIFT numpad 8 or 2
h. Select to the beginning of a document: press CONTROL with SHIFT and then press the HOME 
i. Select to the end of a document: press CONTROL with SHIFT and then press END 
j. Select the entire document: CONTROL with a
6. Toggle: When a hotkey is marked toggle it means that using it the first time turns the action on. Using it again (as when you are finished) turns the action off. Toggling cycles between on and off every time you use the hotkey. Hotkeys that are toggles are identified with (toggle) 
7. Bolding, changing text size, and italicizing existing text for book titles, parts, chapters, sections, recipes, poems and content
a. Make letters bold: highlight the text to be bolded then CONTROL with b (toggle)
b. Make letters italic: highlight the text to be italicized then CONTROL with i (toggle)
c. Decrease font size 1 point: highlight the text to be decreased then CONTROL with [ 
d. Increase font size 1 point: highlight the text to be increased then CONTROL with ] 
8. Underlining existing letters or spaces: highlight the text to be underlined and press
CONTROL with u (toggle)
9. count the following: Pages, words, characters (no spaces), characters (with spaces), paragraphs and lines. 
a. Highlight what you want counted from the entire document to a single line then: CONTROL with SHIFT then g
b. Useful when checking to see if a title is 65 characters or more: Highlight the text then CONTROL with SHIFT then g
10. Altering attributes for text to be typed:
a. bolding: CONTROL with b (toggle)
b italicize: CONTROL with I (toggle)
c. underline: CONTROL with u (toggle)
d. Decrease font size 1 point: With the cursor on the space before the text you want to type: CONTROL [
e. Increase font size 1 point: With the cursor on the space before the text you want to type: press the CONTROL with ]
11. Undo the last action: press the CONTROL key and the Z key. This is an easy way to correct your mistakes. Press this as many times as needed to get to the place you want to change. This doesn't work once you close and reopen the document.
12. In the find box
a. ^p = paragraph mark which indicates the start of a paragraph
b. ^p^p = double line break
c. ^+ = em-dash"
d. ^- = en-dash"

How to Customize Microsoft Word Auto Correction Options
(Based on MS Word 2013 but should work for most versions of Word for Windows)
1. Open Options by pressing alt plus f, then t.
2. You are in a list of categories. Press down arrow until you reach Proofing.
3. Press the tab key until you reach a button labelled "Auto Correct Options" and press the spacebar on this button. This opens a multi-page dialogue box where you can change many auto-correct features.
4. The first item is a list of things that can be replaced with something else, such as (c) will be replaced by a graphical copyright sign.
5. Press down arrow in this list until you come to "dot dot dot". This means that when you type three periods in a row Word will automatically replace the three periods with something else.
6. Press tab once more and you will be in a list that tells you what Word will replace "dot dot dot" with. In this case it will say something like "horizontal ellipsis".
7. While focused on this entry you can press alt plus D or tab to the "Delete Button" and press space. This will delete the entry from the list which means word will no longer automatically replace the three periods with its graphical ellipsis.
8. Tab to the "OK Button" and press space.
9. Follow steps 1-3 above to go back into the Auto-Correct Options.
a. Press "CONTROL plus tab" until you come to the "Auto-Format As You type" tab.
b. Tab through these options and uncheck the ones you want to disable.
We recommend unchecking the following:
* fractions such as 1/2 with a graphical character
* automatic bulleted lists
* automatic numbered lists
* Borderlines
c. Press "CONTROL plus Tab" again until you get to the "Auto-Format" tab.
10. Press tab a few times until you get to the "Automatic Bulleted Lists" option and uncheck it in here too.
11. Tab to "OK" and press space to activate.

How to Change Paper Size in MS Word
(Works for Versions of Word: 2007, 2010 and 2013 and may work for later versions as well)
1. To change the paper size of a document in Microsoft Word you will need to go to the "Page Setup" dialogue on the "Page Layout" tab. To get here press "alt plus p, s, p"
2. Press "CONTROL plus tab" until you see/hear "Paper Tab".
3. Press tab once and you will be in a combo box called "Paper Size". If you press the "down arrow", you will find various types of paper from which to choose.
In most cases, changing from "Letter" (which is usually the default) to "Legal" size will be sufficient to get rid of all of the soft page breaks in your document.
4. Arrow down to "Legal", or press the letter "L" until you see/hear "Legal".
5. Press tab a few times until you come to a combo box labelled "Apply To" and make sure it says "Whole Document".
6. Tab to "OK" and press space to activate.
If you still see some soft page breaks, it may be necessary to change the page length a bit more.
7. Return to the "Paper Tab" of the "Page Setup" dialogue.
8. In the "Paper Size" combo box, Press down arrow or the letter "C" until you hear "Custom".
9. Press tab until you see/ "Height". This is an edit field where you can enter the paper length you want. Legal size is 14", so entering a length longer than 14" will probably get rid of any lingering soft page breaks. (Note that Word will not accept a length of more than 22 inches.)
10. Again, make sure you're applying this setting to the entire document, then tab to "OK" and press the space bar.
You may get a pop-up message from Word indicating that "one or more margins is outside the printable area". Just tab to the "Ignore" button and press the space bar to dismiss the message.

Spell Catcher Can't Catch 'Em
One reason it's so important to read all of the book you're proofreading is that the spell check won't identify all of the scannos because some of them are real words the OCR recognized in place of another real word like cuts for cute or me for the. These can only be found and fixed by reading them in context. 
For over a decade some volunteers enjoyed recording words their spell checkers couldn't catch as they encountered them while preparing scans or proofreading. Here is an alphabetized list of words your spell check couldn't have identified. It might help to refer to it when you're unsure whether or not to correct a real word that doesn't make sense.
) for ? question mark, in italics
01 for or
0112 for one
0 for O and O for 0
10 for to
15 for is
44 for "
50 for so
letter G for letter C
a; for as
a!! for all
ad for all
ad dressing for addressing
add for acid
age in for again
AH for All
ail for all
aim for him
aim for arm
aims for turns
Air. for Mr.
ajar for a jar
Alien's for Allen's
all for ail
all for frail
all for hall
ally for any
allow for aflow
allow for follow
alone for along
alter for after
altitude for attitude
An for All
Angle for Angie
ant for any
anus for arms
appealed for appeared
arc for are
arid for and
Aries for Arles (A location in France)
Arm for Ann 
art for act
artt for an
as for us
as warm for aswarm
at for Ah
ATE for ATF.
atone for alone
axe for are
babe for bake
bad for back
bad for had
bailbuster for ballbuster
baiting for batting
ball for half
Ban for Bart
bar for liar
barn for bam
bath for hath
battle for baffle
be for he
bear for hear
bead for head
bed for her
bed for lied
beer for been
bend for beyond
belter for better
bemuse for because
bidden for hidden
Bide for hide
bike for like
bind for bird
binding for birding 
bit for hit
Bite for spite
blackboard for Blackbeard
blacks for blocks
Blamed for Named
block for knock
blow for brow
blow for how
book for boot
boom for booth
boots and Hooks for books 
Boris's for Bott's 
born for both
braised for bruised
brash for brush
brim for bum
bring for being
broadband for bread and 
bum for burn
bun for him
burn for bum
burnout for humour
burrowed for furrowed
but for out
butt for but
cabled for called
cad for call
café au hit for café au lait, 
cairn for calm
candies for candles
caning for catting
car for can
cashed for crushed
casks for castles
cat for car
cat for eat
catered for entered
Charming for Channing (a character's name)
charter for chatter 
cheek for check and checks for cheeks
Christinas for Christmas
clans for darts
class for doss
clans for darts
clear for dear
Cleat for clear
clip for cup
Clipped for dipped
clips for cups
clogs for dogs
cloth for doth
clown for down
cluttering for chittering
cola for color
comer for corner
Comment for Connacht, an Irish town
Comet for come!
computer for completed
cone for tone
conies for comes
coot for cool
Cope for Hope
coverrags for coverings
Crapulous for scrupulous
crashes for crushes
crime for crême
cruder for crueler
crudest for cruelest
crying for trying
Cud for end
cuts for cute
Deaf for Dear
Dawn for down
Decent for docent
dial for that
day for clay
dean for clean
Deep for Beep
defective for detective
Deny for Derry (Irish town)
derided for decided
DIE for DIC D I C stands for Disseminated intravascular clotting
die for the
die for pee
diet for die!
Delirious for Delicious 
din for dirt
died for dined
dipped for clipped
distinct for district
doable for double
doe for the
Doily for dolly
domes for clothes
dosed for closed
dots for does
dotted for dated
drink for think
drought for thought
dry for city
dub for club
duck for thick
dumb for clumb - In this instance clumb is dialect
dumber for chamber
dump for clump
dung for clung
dunk for think
dusters for clusters
ear for car
Early for Carly
earphone for carphone
earned for carried
ears for earn
ease for case
east for easy
Easter for Faster
eat for cat
either for other
Ended for tended
Eraser for Fraser
erred for cried
Etc for de
event for even
Evolved for involved
excrement for excitement
exit for out
expired for expected
exported for expected
eves for eyes
fact for face
faculties for facilities 
fad for lad
fading for failing
fail for tall
failing for falling
fall for full
fake for take
fan for fall
fanner's for farmer's
far for fat
faring for facing
farmer for farther
Fart for Fact
Fart for Part
fate for late
fattier for father
favor for flavor, publisher's mistake
feather for father
fed for fell
fee for the
fee! for feel
feel for feet
feet for fact
Fickle for Pickle
fiddle for middle
fiends for friends
fife for life
fife for fire
fight for flight
fight for light
fight for right
fights for lights
filing for thing	
fill for Jill (twice in same paragraph)
fine for line
fingered for lingered
fir for for
Fire for Ere
fire for are
fired for tired
firm' for firin'
fist for list
fit for lit
fitter for either
fitter for litter
five fore live
Flail for Hall
flat for that
Flow for How
flunk for think
flunking for thinking
Flurry for Hurry
Flush for Hush
Foil for full
Folly for fully
fork for for it
form for forth
fox for for
frill for full
frilly for fully 
front for from
fry for fly
fudge for judge
Fumed for Turnd
fun for full
gas for gets
gamer for gather
gentry for gently
Glare for Clare
Glint for Clint
goo for good
Goon for Go on
Grade for Gracie
granted for grunted
greet for great
grew for great
groom for gloom
grouch for crouch
guest for quest
gut for But
gut for gal
gut for guy
guttered for glittered
Hack and birth for back and forth
Had for hard
hag for bag
Hags for flags
hail for hall
hair for chair
hail for trail
hall for hail and hail for hall
Hal for Ha!
hallway for halfway
halt for hall
halt for half
ham for William
Hammer for Bammer
hand some for handsome
hangings for bangings
Hash for flash
hastening for Fastening
hasty for nasty
Hat for flat
have for hove
Have for I love
Hay for Ray
He for be
He and he for lie
he'd for she'd
Headier for Heather
hear for bear
Heap for Reap
heat for head
heed for need
Heft for I left 
held for field
heat for hear
heat for treat
hell for bell
hem for them
hen for her.
her lions for hellions
here for hero
hex for her
hick for luck
Hider for Hitler
Hike for bike
hike for take
hint for him
hint for hurt
hip for his
hip for trip
His for 'tis
Hit for bit
HO for 110
hobbling for bobbling
hogging for blogging
Hoist for Holst (Holst, the composer of The Planets etc]
Home for Name
Homework for Homeworld
hone for hope
honkers for bonkers
Honor for horror
Hoods for Floods
hoof for hoo!
hook for book
Horn for born
horn for hotel
horn for hour
hot for not
howl for How I
howls for bowls
Huffy for Fluffy
hug for bug
hum for burn
Hunk for bunk
hut for but
hut for hilt
I he for The
I'll for 111
I'll for III
'I'll for Till
I his for This
I hey for they
icing for king
if for it
It 11 for It'll
if for of
ill for all
ill for if I
Ill for I'll
imaging for unaging
immigration for imagination
in for ill
Indent for ancient
ink for pink
inspects for respects	
Iran for I ran
irate for male
iris for his
It. for Lt.
it for Out
jail for fall
jar for for
Jam for I am
jetting for getting
Jew for New
kid for kill
Ken I for Keri
kicking for picking
kilted for killed
kin for skin
king for long
kit for left
knives for fives
lace for place
lacking for kicking
lad for had
lad for kid
ladder for kidder
lair for hair
lake for Jake
lake for take
Lama's for Laura's
land for kind
lands for hands
lass for kiss
lasted for tasted
lather for father
leaking for looking
leaky for lealty
lean for I can
leant for I can't
learning for teaming
least for beast
lectern for lecture
letting for setting
lever for never
lid for said
lie for he
lie for like
lie for she
lie for tie
lied for died
Lies for Iles, a name
lighter for righter
Limes for times
linen for Then
lingers for fingers
lining for dining
lit for fit
Littered for uttered
little for lithe
live for five
Load for Road
locking for looking
long for king
look for took
loss for Ross
louse for house
lull for full
lulls for hills
lush for gush
lust for Just
lying for flying
male for man
Mall for Hall
mama for mania
man for than
many for marry
map for man
marked for married
Mat for that
match for march
Math for Matt
may for way
me for the
medicating for indicating
men for then
mere for there
Mice for Alice
midnight for midflight
mined for ruined
mink for think
minors for mirrors
Minted for limited
mint for ruint
mom for now
Mood for blood
motlier for mother
mourn for mouth
mud for much
Muffins for Mullins
mini mum for minimum
mining for ruining
minions for millions
Minor for mirror
modem for modern
mom for room
mowed for blowed
mule for little
my for any
naming for flaming
nail for hall
napping for flapping
neediest for needles?
nearly for neatly
nest for next
new for now
night for might
night for right
nighty for flighty
no for 110
none for gone
Nor for not
nourish for flourish
Now for know
nowhere for now here
nuke for mike
nun for him
Nut for Not
nutter for flutter
oases for cases
oh for Bob
oily for Olly in Oily oily oxen free for Olly olly oxen free
of for ol'
of for or
often for of ten
oh for on and on for oh
oil for on
or for for
or for of
or: for on
other for at her 
other for of her
ouch for much
out for but
oven for oxen
overdose for overclose
overhead for overheard
owl for own
own for down
pace for face
pail for part
pan for can
pan for part
paperhound for paperbound
parr for part
parried for partied
parts for pants
patents for parents
pathetically for sympathetically
per for her
Peru for Perv
pie for me
pie's for He's
plate for place
pocketboob for pocketbook
poet for poor
pore for pom
porn-porn for pom-pom
portion for position
possibility for possibilité
pot for not
Pour for Four
pouted for poured
puffing for pulling
puking for pulsing
pun for purr
puree for purse
pureed for pursed
put for out
quest ion for question
Quickie for Chuckie
race for peace
racks for rocks
raided for rattled
rained for ruined
raking for taking
ram for rum
ran for run
ranting for panting
rash for rush
rate for rare
rather for father
rattier for Rather
ray for my
reached for reacted
reality for ready
realty for really
render for fender
resuited for resulted
Retched for reached
relying for relying
Reunion for rebellion
rib for no
righting for fighting
riled for filed
Rim for Run
ringer for finger
riot for not
ripped for tipped
rob for rub
robbed for rubbed
rocked for locked
rod for roll
Roy for Boy
rubes for tubes
Ruin for Ruby
ruled for ruined
rum for him
Rum for Ruth
rum for turn 
rumbling for tumbling
rune for nine
rut for but
S-A for 5-4
sail for ball
Saving for saying
Saw for say
Scat for seat 
scathing for soothing 
scouring for scouting
section for erection
shed for she'd
smiting for smiling
stack for stuck
staff for stuff
staffed for started
stared for started
stares for states
Starling for starting
Start for Stan
stating for staring
steep for sleep
seethe for see the
sense for sat
settee for settle
sewed for served
shin for shirt
ships for strips
show for snow
Showing for shoving
sifted for gifted
signet for sighed
size for she
skid for said
skins for skirts
Slaked for slowed
slat for "Mat
slaying for staying
slit for slip
slop for stop
slopping for stopping 
slot for Slut
sly for sky
smelted for smelled
smiting for smiling
snaking for shaking
Snort for short
snots for shots
snouted for Shouted 
sniffing for smiling
snowed for showed
soil for still
So warns for Sowams (Sowams, the name of an Native American village
sod for soil
sold for gold
sonic for some
Sony for Sorry
sort for soft
Spam for Spain
spare for space
sported for spotted
sporting for spotting
stack for stuck
staff for stuff
staffed for started
stain for stair
stared for started
stares for states
Starling for starting
Start for Stan
stating for staring
steep for sleep
stem for stern
straggle for struggle
straighten for straighter
Strapped for snapped 
strata for strain
Strapped for snapped 
stump for stamp
Sue for Sire
suppers for slippers
sum for sign
swain for swam
swine for swing
swatch for snatch
syllabic for syllable
tagged for ragged
tagging for lagging 
tacky for lucky
tagging for tugging
Take for Jake
Take for Jake
tall for hall
tall for hall
Tall for Y'all
tamed for turned
Taste for Tae in Tae Kwon Do
tax for tux
team for learn
teach for beach
tear for year
teen for been
tenor for terror
test for rest
The for me
The for 'Me
Then for Men
then for their
then for Theo
There for mere
thin for they
thine for thing
thinly for thin
thong for thing
though for through
tick for pick
tide for title 
tiding for riding
Tie for He
tie for lie
Tied for bed
tier for her
tide for title
tight for light
tight for right
Tile for The
tilings for things
Till for Bill
tilled for killed
tinder for under
tins for this
tip for up
tire for the
tire for fire
tiring for thing
to for tu -( french)
toad for road
toe for too
tomes for comes
Tones for Jones 
Toni Sawyer for Tom Sawyer
too for 100
took for look
took for tools
tool for too!
tool for too!
tool for fool
tooted for rooted
toots for roots
top for too
toss for loss
tour for your
tout for but 
tows for to us
track for frack
track for truck
trading for trailing
tram for truth
trim for him
trunk for think
tune for time
tuning for timing
tunelessly for timelessly
turn for him
Turns for Tums
twining for running 
Undipped for unclipped
unfit for unlit
unfitted for unlined
unfired for untired
unlocked for unlooked
up for lip
Uttered for littered
Veil for well
Version for Persian
very for every
Video for Vireo
vow for you
Vie for the
wad for wall
wag for was
wail for way
Waned for waited
ware for square
Warfare for what are
warned for wanted
washed for wished
Wax for war
way for was
wear for year
wed for well
well for we'll
we'll for well
Wheel for Whee!
Will for Wilf – Wilf is a name
Wilting for willing
wire for wife
wits for was
wits for with
worm for worth
worsen for women
wound for around
wrung for wrong
yam for saint
yam for yarn
yell for ye'll (Scottish dialect)
yes for eyes
yon for you