Hi Linda: I validate books for bookshare, and I can tell you that although
their software calls a book with many errors excellent; they don't pass my
test. But I learned that quantity seems to be more important than quality.
That the book is readable is good enough. Not all books are like that; I've
read some that were really good quality; but some are not, and you just have
to muddle through it. If it's bad enough, however, I'd bring it to
someone's attention. Some books may slip through the cracks. Patti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Lupaczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Humanware" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:13 PM
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
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