Until this work has been done for a social cause ,not for any commercial
gain, I see no harm in scanning the books and sharing it with others.
Renuka.
----- Original Message -----
From: "govind reddy" <[email protected]>
To: "accessindia" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] New Book: Shadows Across the Playing Field
Dear Nisha Sing and others:
1. Scanning a book and distributing with in our own community is a
big crime to be debated upon, to be discussed for hours together
wasting our precious time and energy?
If it is such a big crime, many in the colleges (So called the sighted
persons), inspite of having many accessible books and library
fecilities, still photo copy the books, why is it so?
Did you dare to point them out this? I’m sure you wouldn’t have, even
if you have tried, I’m also sure that you might have failed.
Do you know how many invaluable desertations, research papers and
books published by the current publishers and authors, I left with out
reading and interpreting them?
Do you know the valuable books I was deprived of reading?
Do you know the insults I had confronted in pursuing my higher education?
Do you know how difficult it is to learn a forign language?
Do you know how bad the universities are at providing the fecilities
for a VI person???
The wold is not in Delhi and USA. It is there through out India.
2. If you are such an honest person, do you have the copies of all
softwares you use?
Do you have the legal copies of Windows, M S Office, JAWS?
3. If you are a real and complete blind, how did you read the books
with out recording, scanning, in short with out any assistance?
4. If Prashanth and others don’t scan the books and don’t distribute
them to any visually impaired in India or abroad, will you do it?
Will you provide the books in an accessible format at your own cost?
5. Do you know how many of the visually impaired can successfully
access the computer independently?
Do you know how many of the visually impaired persons of this list,
can access the computers of their own?
Infact, are you a visually impaired who knows the practical
difficulties of a VI person?
Don’t live in Utopia, lead a practical and real life.
Come in to the society, try to know the actual difficulties.
Don’t restrict yourself to a limited section.
I couldn’t express my wrath properly, yet I tried to do it at my best.
And seriously I don’t regret for all my comments in this mail.
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away; Don't call me a moon, I'll wane away; Call me a shadow, I'll be
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