Hello Shreyas I will be happy to know more about bookshare issue of cost. The membership is Rs. 400 for entire year for any number of books that you can read with a choice of about 60000 books. Most libraries which provide free membership would still charge cost of CD or media on which book is sent. Bookshare doesn't have this cost as you can easily download the book directly on computer or on android based phones or tablets.
If you find Rs. 400 as annual cost to be higher, then Saksham offers bookshare books to you at the cost of Rs. 30 per book. In this case you can identify the book that you want and Saksham will download this book on your behalf and send it to you by e-mail. Another huge benefit of bookshare books are that these are not just scanned books but these have been proofread. This is completely unparallel scale and quality. Huge amount of these books come directly from publisher files which mean with no errors in the text. Members are alo getting free of cost tools to read these books in wonderful TTS. If you are looking for quality, ease of use and to be able to get books of choice, what would be your expectation of cost at which such a service can be made available? Do not mention free as free is not sustainable nor it is valued. Saksham does provide free membership for all other types of books such as its talking book collection. In fact, you can go to www.daisyindia.org and have a look at list of member organisations. Each of this member can provide books produced at any organisation in the country. Common catalogue of books available by different organisations is available at www.oblindia.org. Each library mentioned in list of members have their own policy for cost of membership or cost per book to end users. In any case, none of these libraries is taking actual cost of reproduction of book in accessible format which runs into thousands of rupees per book. Thanks Dipendra -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ranjana Rana Sent: 17 July 2012 12:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] regarding getting member of library free Hi Shreyas, NAB Delhi's talking book library will help you in this regards. From here you can get books in accessible format, both in DAISY as well e-text. To awail the memebership just drop an e-mail in the email ID given below, with the subject "Request for the NAB Delhi's Talking Book Library's membership" You will be reverted back with complete information ASAP. Thanks and Regards, Ranjana Rana On 15/07/2012, Shreyas N Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all > hope all r fine > If there is any one using free services from any library. Please I > would like to know as I am interested to read books pertaining to > Indian facts & non fiction. > I'd like even to read referring books like the history, economics, > geography, sociology & etc. > So, if I can avail this service free of cost, it would be very nice. > I don't want books in hard copy but in soft copy for instance like > books share but this bookshare service is not available free of cost > Please help members I hope u all understood my question > -- > in regards > Shreyas Nagaraj Reddy > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org > .in > > -- "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present." Eleanor Roosevelt Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
