Hi Tom.
While I understand your frustration, and totally simpathize, for myself your
experience has a different ring, being as up until 2006 no starwwars books
were vailable in Britain at all! accept a few abridged commercial tape
copies. The rnib did none of them. in 2006 they recorded the three throrn
novels (one reason I know who Mara jayde is, though before that point I'd
only ever seen her in the Masters of teras kasi beat em up).
So, all the more reason to start distributing books in accessible
format,perhaps with the password proviso as a safegard.
I do think though things may change in the next few years, sinse the
proprietory format arguement is pretty much an illusion anyway, given that
it wouldn't be so difficult for me to just plug my r09 into any audio device
and quickly make a digital copy in mp3 of the sound itself, ---- that's
assuming there isn't some sort of dazy coppier out there anyway.
interestingly enough one of the few good organizations in Britain, calibre
tape library actually don't! use proprietory formats for this reason, and
tend to just think if people happen to copy their stuff to keep on
computer, ---- it doesn't matter.
Actually calibre are lovely, they have a good set of readers, try to
complete series, and are very carefull about what they reccord. The only sad
thing is that they have so few resources their catalogue only contains a few
hundred books, indeed I had to cancel my subscription with them after being
a member for about six years because I'd physically read every sf, fantasy
and horror book they had, not to mention all the books in other genres by
writers who interested me.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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