Linda, Being a former print reader myself, I do understand the lack of seeing progress when reading on a braille display. I also use a Bookworm for pleasure reading and was ecstatic when I found the function that told me what percentage of the book I had read.
Cindy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Linda Lupaczyk > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:13 PM > To: Humanware > Subject: [Braillenote] I finally did it! > > > Hell, and another big thank you to all of you who tried to > help when I was having trouble downloading books from > bookshare. I have finally been able to get books into my > Braillenote and have been enjoying reading during down times > at work. I have noticed some problems with some of the > Braille, and I'm not sure if this is computer Braille I'm not > familiar with or Braille errors. The first book I tried to > read "and then there was light", the story of a blind man who > was a part of the French resistance during WW2 had a lot of > errors in it. Since this was my first experience reading a > downloaded book, however, I decided to reserve judgment until > I read something else to compare it with. I am now reading > "the cross and the scalpel", and the Braille is much better > in that book. There are some mistakes I have been able to > figure out because I learned to read print with an optacon, > and that helped me to work some things out. For instance, > most of the time, when the word "soon" comes up, it is > brailled as #500l. It took me a while to figure that one > out, and there are still some that I can't quite make out. > Is this due to scanner errors? > > Being a Braille reader, I have notice that I miss the feeling > of making progress one gets from reading from the top of the > page to the bottom, or from turning pages and seeing them > build. Maybe that sounds kind of crazy, but I did notice a > feeling of not going anywhere like riding on a stationary > bike rather than on a two-wheeler or a tandem where you can > measure the progress in miles and feel the speed of your > progress. Is that crazy, or did any of you feel the same > when you started reading books using a Braille display? > Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the reading and am going to > continue, but I have noticed this adjustment. > > Now for one more question -- When I finish the book, and > don't want to keep it in my Braillenote anymore, how can I > delete it? I was going to look through the manual to see if > I could find directions for purging a book from the system > but I wanted to read more than I wanted to do that this afternoon. > > Thank you all again for your help. > > Linda > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/bra> illenote > >
