Hi all,
denise avant writes:
> Hi,
> I do have web braille. But (1) it takes a while for new books and (2) the
> titles aren't all that well-known. I'm currently reading a book as part of a
> Sunday school class and it would have been nice to see if I could have
> gotten it in an electronic format. It's not on web braille.
> So I was just wondering if another source existed. I know bookshare is there
> if you don't mind putting up with scanned materials though my book isn't
> there either. So I'm scanning it.
Well, when you get done scanning it, send it to bookshare, and it will
be there. Did you try CCEL for your book? Sometimes it has amazing
stuff. You've got to remember that if you're reading something that
is fairly specialized, a book for Sunday School put out by a small
Christian press, it's not likely to be in electronic format, even
today.
However, Denise, when you start bashing Bookshare and it's some
25,000. books, remember, if you can, what it was like even ten years
ago, let alone twenty-five years ago or longer. If you consider that,
then "putting up with scanned books", is a pittance, a mere pittance to
pay!
God help us all if we ever forget where we've come from and how
sterile and limited the collection of books and newspapers and
magazines was. Thing is, folks, not to sound like a Cassandra, but
let this war in the Middle East spread, let the economy crumble, let
the power companies go dark, and we'll be right back there again,
boom! You better all hone your Braille skills and any other skills
you think might be auxiliary.
"Putting up with scanned books" indeed! I'm just finishing a
Bookshare book. I had to clean it up some cuz it has a bunch of ASCII
codes in it, but the BrailleNote Editor works surprisingly well. I
was able to find and replace most of the garbage, and it's fine now.
In fact, I may just submit it back to BookShare as a cleaned up book.
If you don't like the scans, then clean 'em up!
I can remember sitting in the Rundell library in the mid 80s marveling
at the Kurzweil reader that was as big as a couch reading to me aloud.
<soap box mode ended> Oh, and just to make this OT, nobody even heard
of a notetaker when I went to school. Only notetaker I had was a tape
recorder and a ten pound brailler.
Ann P.
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