Hi Ann,
What is the year of the edition of that pocket dictionary? If it is the
one that was available for so many years written in the early 50s, I
wouldn't think it would have much value. So am wondering if it is much
newer? I'd think one could put it on most CF cards rather easily.
Jim Aldrich
At 04:56 PM 07/22/2005 , you wrote:
Hi all,
Just a follow-up to my note of earlier this morning. I do indeed have
all eight volumes of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They
*are* there. I'm getting used to this shock, but man does it take
some getting used to! When I think that I had to wait two years for
Watership Down. When I think that there were books upon books that
all my friends were reading, and I couldn't get them because they
either weren't in the NLS process or weren't brailled or recorded.
When I think of all the times I would watch my mother going off to the
library or the bookstore and have her return hours, yes hours later
loaded down with books! It's a miracle. Oh, not a supernatural one,
but it is a technological one. To think that I can have eight volumes
of Braille on a card the size of a matchbook! I have The American
Pocket Dictionary here in hard copy Braille. It's in eight volumes.
Oh, and I didn't even mention the Bookshare books and the other books
I have on my five gig drive.
Yes, it's a shock, and it does take some getting used to. And yes,
old Isaac, you started it all, and are responsible for my fainting spell.
<smile> My cat is so full of himself today he's demanding his treats
be given every hour since he revived me.
Sorry for the philosophizing, but I can't help it. I just can't help
it, folks!
Ann P.
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Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
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