I'm not good with reading the mannuals; they are too technical for me.
Right now I am using nvda which is very different from window-eyes which
I used until my whole system crashed.
I'm also using mozilla so that to is a big learning curve. At my age
they say it's good to learn new stuff, but fi I had something to learn
from it would be a whole lot easier.
I'd love to be able to make a recipe folder, forwrd a message, etc. I
know in time I will.
On 7/11/2020 5:15 PM, Pamela Fairchild via Cookinginthedark wrote:
I'm always learning new things or ways to do things on the computer.
Unfortunately, I forget things a lot more often than I used to as well, making
it necessary to have a notebook of tips and key strokes that tell me what to do.
Pamela Fairchild
<pamelafairch...@comcast.net>
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From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 7:24 PM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Cc: Lora Leggett <kc8...@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CnD] old braille cookbooks
Hi Pamela,
Yep, I’d have to move out too but I do read all the reccipes on my SD cards in
my Vic. I’m glad I have more than one, but I just use one when I am recording.
I try to do them in smaller groups so I don’t wear my head out, haha.
I’ll have to look so I can tell you what I have had so far. There is one book
I did not do, it’s the Pillsbury fast and Healthy book. I found out I had
downloaded it from Bookshare.
So, I just read the contents. That way, I will have the contents to browse, so
since as you probably know, I know I am preaching to the choir, but here is
what I found out.
You can, of course, play a book from there in your Vicand he or she will read
it to you.
However, when you open that big folder in your computer, you go down a couple
folders where it says the name with XML at the end of it. Open that folder,
and there, big as life, it shows you the entire book! Really, you can see
every word! That shocked me, but is also very cool, because then you can look
up a recipe and find it.
I was amazed because no one had shown me before.
So, no need for me to write out that Pillsbury book.
But I’ll go look up what I did speak on the Vic.
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From: Pamela Fairchild via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 6:38 PM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Cc: pamelafairch...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [CnD] old braille cookbooks
I can read the UEB but don't ask me to write it. I don't like it either. I
suppose many of us who have read braille forever don't tend to.
On a second topic, I just read through that list of cookbooks. Can you imagine
having all of those in your library? If they were braille rather than
electronic copies, I'd have to move out of my house in order to make room for
all the braille books. I thought I had collected a lot of recipes over the
years but mine are nothing compared to all the ones on that list.
Pamela Fairchild
<pamelafairch...@comcast.net>
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From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of Linda S. via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 5:52 PM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Cc: Linda S. <lindahoney...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CnD] old braille cookbooks
Hi everyone:
in the seventies there was a lady who wrote a Mexican cookbook who was blind.
Her name was Elena, and I can't remember the last name. She also had a
cooking/kind of dear Abby radio show in Los Angeles. Does anyone know about her?
Also, I wonder if we took a survey who would say they like Ueb? Maybe it's just
the learning curve, or something, but I wish Braille hadn't changed.
Everyone stay well and safe!
Linda and Lara
On 7/11/2020 11:38 AM, Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Hi Pauline,\
You may be right about places feeling uncomfortable about sending braille books
out.
I’ve gotten a couple of them from Dr. McGee’s Bible bus place in California
over the summer. But they are for you to just keep, not something coming back
to them if you are borrowing books as you would at the Library.
They do sell copies of some of the stuff but cannot sell it if it was donated
to them from someone.
I like the cookbooks that they have from churches, those recipes are so good.
They give you a month but you can ask for one more month if you can’t finish
with it right away.
I record them on my Victor Stream. That way I am not frazzled about getting
them back to them on time.
I did get your message in the other place and will get back to you very soon.
Lora
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From: Pauline Smith via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 1:52 PM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Cc: Pauline Smith
Subject: Re: [CnD] old braille cookbooks
Good Afternoon,
I have not heard of this Indiana resource Lora mentioned. Could you
post contact information for them, please? You may not be getting
materials from them due to what's going on right now. I have heard
from several correspondents that their libraries have temporarily
stopped sending out braille materials due to the pandemic. One of the
places that sends out monthly devotionals has done this.
On another subject, I am with Lora as far as UEB. I can read it but
don't like it. I wouldn't have taken courses to learn it if I hadn't
had the possibility of needing to teach it. Of course, I don't have to
worry about that right now.
Pauline
On 7/11/20, Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark
<cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote:
I can read the UEB, but don’t really have to like it, haha.
Hey, have any of you guys gotten braille cookbooks to borrow from the
Braille Library and Transcribing Service in Indianapolis, Indiana?
I just started getting them somewherearound a year and a half ago. I
think I had about 8 books, but have not received one for a couple months.
I also get Seeing It Our Way Magazine.
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From: meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 1:19 PM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Cc: meward1...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [CnD] old braille cookbooks
Yes, they would have to be put into UEB. So somebody would have
weeks and weeks of back-translator fun. It would probably be easier
to just retype them.
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From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On
Behalf Of
lorischarff--- via Cookinginthedark
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 10:51 AM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Cc: lorischa...@gmail.com
Subject: [CnD] old braille cookbooks
I think for NLS to reissue the books they would have to be put into UEB.
I have a braille copy of "THE BRAILLE COOKBOOK COMPILED FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE BLIND HOUSEWIFE." By Marjorie S. Hooper, Braille
Editor American Printing House for the Blind and Mrs. Paul J. Langan
Kentucky School for the Blind. It says it was embossed in 1948. This
book is only one volume. It describes the labels in the introduction
but, the book I have does not have any remaining. It goes on to say
that you can purchase labels from APH or "the housewife can make her
own with a slate and
Stiless and gummb lables from the dime store.
Looked to see if I could locate the recipe for BIG BOY but it does
not seem to be in the index with that name.
Lori
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