As I have said often, the Braille Note and the ability to carry books, not just one or two but hundreds, magazines, and then to use it for work taking notes, keeping track of work done, taking minutes at meetings, keeping appointments in order, calculating and all the rest is amazing. I think that of all the technology I have worked very hard to get next to the main computer which I have to use for work the Braille Note is the absolute best purchase I have made. I use one of them daily,. I have a lot of books I have downloaded that I have not read yet, several that I have read parts of, some references for work, and if I get stuck waiting I can select what I want to read based on the need, my mood or the length of time I figure I will have to wait. I can carry the library with me on a CF card. What a change from the days when my mother would drive me to the Phoenix Center For the Blind and let me pick out three books from their small library to read for the whole summer. If I read them in one day, she refused to take me back to exchange them for at least six weeks. Now I don't have to find a way to pick up those huge boxes from the post office and return them, let alone trip over them in my house, and I have so many more choices.
This is all thanks to the Braille Note. I may have a few things I am not fond of, such as the e-mail client, but then, I am used to my computer for that anyway,. Long live the Braille note and its offspring, if I can manage it I will try to stay as up-to-date as possible, if not, I still have the ability to carry hundreds of titles for reading anywhere I go. Rose Combs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ann K. Parsons Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Braillenote List 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. -- Ann K. Parsons email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT ___ 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/braillenote
