For crying out loud be happy you've got the where with all to enjoy this technology. I know it's not easy but think back a few decades. At one time there was just grade one and one half on a big heavy braille volume. Put that on your bookshelf and think a little. We should be happy and say praise god to the Lord above that we have this technology to enjoy--work for--ask these commissions for the blind--who knows--just be happy you've got the time and inclination to learn and enjoy all these things. You could be living in North Viet Nam or Red China. Then what would you read.
Sukosh Fearon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of denise avant Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 10:03 PM To: 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [BrailleNote] USA digital talking books Well, I just wish we could all settle on one type of format so we will not have to leave home with 40 devices. I mean in 2008, you will need to have your nls player for your nls library books, your rfb player for their books, your bookport or bookcourier for audible, the braillenote for web braille books and some other device for windows media player digital audio. How absurd! I thought at the end of the 20th century there was a discussion of uniformity for making books available to the blind in the u.s. But then nls comes along and departed from the standard. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Lingard Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 8:31 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [BrailleNote] USA digital talking books Ottawa Canada Hi Pam: Yes from what I hear, downloading digital talking books on the Internet will be the preferred method of distributing them. This is because the net is faster than a speeding mail truck and requires virtually no human time and effort on the part of NLS to fulfil each download request. And there is no problem as with cassettes of the library being out of stock for a while on a title you really like or desperately need for school. But the vast majority of bind people are elderly and the guys grew up when typing was the domain of girls. So they don't have computers and in many cases don't want one. They just want their talking books to talk to them! Will take a while until the average newly blind person can be assumed to know how to touch-type. Take care. Brian -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7/409 - Release Date: 04/08/2006 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
