Me too, Ann! But my poor ferdinand is probably out of the i. c. u. and
hopefully in the battery warehouse where he and a chorus of other bn family
members are driving the walls crazy talking until their batteries run flat.
But yes, what a true miracle indeed.
I remember messing around with the smartest kids in the class at college,
just to hear them talk about all the philosophy books and literature books
and whatnot but look at this this way, You young collegiants out there
couldn't even conceive of the fact that in my day and I am nearly a
hundred,(just 43 years shy of it) professors had to make separate lists of
reading material for me so I could get a college education. Fortunately I
had some very lovely Nuns who went along with this and were quite adaptable
but we old goats never seace to marvel at what these dear people at
humanware strive so hard to do for us but try taking your class notes with a
stylus and slate for a week and then come back and tell us what that braille
note doesn't do for you.
Just try it.
I had no idea just how marvelous these machines are until I am left not even
being able to read a book because this stupid IBM wants to open all
bookshare books as spreadsheets. I wonder where it got that idea, Anyway
bedtime has been rather long with nothing to read and there is only so much
of the weather channel and qvc the human nervous system to say nothing of
the pocket book can take.
But I think we digress but I for one am saying Thank you, Humanware Thank
you so much for just being you.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann K. Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:56 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] harry potter
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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Ann K. Parsons
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"All that is gold does not glitter.
Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
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