Hi,
I have to totally agree. I thought that 75.00 was a lot of money to
get started my self. With this thinking I waited almost two years. However
in December I decided to give it a try. Honestly I did it because so many
adadaptive applications are making it esey to download books and read them
from book share. I then payed my subscription within minutes I was
downloading books. I have already payed for my subscription for this year,
with the amount of books that I have read. The greatest appeal is that the
books are current books, not years old.
Scott
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Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:05 PM
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Subject: re: [Braillenote] bookshare update
Hi, Lisa,
Bookshare is a good investment. Once you pay your money for the first year,
You'll be able to brows and get books.
Now you say this is a bad investment. I'll say this. Go to the bookstore
and try to buy books to scan for yourself. Depending on what you buy you
could pay as little as $15 for a book or as much as $50. Now on bookshare
you have the right to download and read about 100 books a month. Are all
the scans perfect? No. Still I have spent many a Saturday night reading
books. Most people try the best they can. Now I have sent optiots about how
I paid my bill with them. Either you want this resource, or you don't. I
managed to pay my bill without having to play around. The first year is
about what you said, but subsequent years don't cost that much. If you had
the equipment and scanned books in, you could even drop the cost of your
future subscription. If you just think about doing something one way, you'll
probably be stuck. There's at least two ways around most things. All we
have to do is think.
Now I've offered suggestions about how to deal with this problem in past
messages.
Brenda Mueller
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [email protected]
>Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:36:01 +1000
>Subject: [Braillenote] bookshare update
>Hi Listers,
>Tech support at Bookshare suggested I see if my ISP has a firewall. I'm
thinking I have asked this before for other reasons and the answer is no.
>I'm still unwilling to pay for Bookshare until the BN is able to handle the
payment option. If I'm still having trouble then well to me Bookshare isn't
worth it. I just think if the BN was unable to handle the payment Web site
I would get a message about it not being able to work in regards to the
payment not in regards to the password from the Web site. I got an email
with my user name and my password and was told to pay so to me if you don't
want people to have their passwords and user names prior to receiving their
payments then don't send them out it just makes sense. I'm not a business
person and thank goodness for that. I honestly wondou how many of the books
will be readable once I join which again makes me reconsider spending $75
which to me really is an outrageous cost. There may be ten thousand books
but how many of them are really readable? Also I have to add an expense of
ordering flash cards or something to store them on because I do not have a
disk drive !
> which I think I'd rather have a flash card. But once again the flash card
could be corrupted and there would go my books. It's just an expensive risk
that seems to have many expensive risks associated with it.
>Thanks for everyone's help. If I ever am able to fully enjoy Bookshare
I'll let you know.
>Lisa
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