Please take this off list. It's very off topic and pety.
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From: "denise avant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"'Braillenote List'"
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 07:10:40 -0500
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Places for Books
Hello ann,
You know, I don't even know how you drew your conclusion. I did
not bash
bookshare. I just don't happen to prefer scanned books if at all
possible.
Is that okay with you.
And by the way, there are a few christian books that make the new
york times
best sellers list, no matter how small the publisher. Some of
them even make
it into audio format, even in an unabridged format. You don't
even know what
I was looking for. And in any case, if we don't advocate for
thing, then
they may never happen.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ann
K. Parsons
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 7:01 AM
To: Braillenote List
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Places for Books
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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