You will find unique material from RFB&D which you can't get in an accessible format other places.
Also, although these books are in audio format, the readers are quite good about describing figures, pictures, graphics, etc. as well as spelling key words. Their aim is mainly to provide textbooks for students of all levels as well as technical and/or more advanced specialized material to professionals and educators. NLS carries mostly popular non-fiction, classics, and fiction. Thus, to a large extent, what NLS and RFB&D provide are complementary. --Pete -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Merritt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:02 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Traci; BookSense List Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why should I bother with audio books from RFB&D? I was somewhat dismayed to discover that, according to the RFBD website and pages I read this weekend, there's an annual book limit for individuals of 35 books a year. Considering I can get unlimited books for free from NLS and as many as I want to pay for through Audible, I'm a little confused of the hubbub around RFBD as well. Truly, this is great news for students and someone who needs publications that are professional or technical in nature that can't be found in other places, but for everyone else, ... hmm. I may use it for training my students, but I'm not totally convinced I'll use it personallly given the other sources out there. Jmt, Wayne On 1/11/10, Peter Torpey <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, RFB&D has many books which NLS doesn't bother to carry. > > RFBD&D is particularly good for students (at all levels, including graduate > school textbooks), professionals, scientific textbooks, and other technical > books. The NLS does not record such technical and professional books and > textbooks. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Traci [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:14 PM > To: BookSense List > Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why should I bother with audio books from RFB&D? > > I believe that rfb&d may be more geared twards students in need of > textbooks. Many are still read by humans. > > I don't know much about it. > > Traci > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dujari, Prateek" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 4:08 PM > Subject: [GW-Booksense] Why should I bother with audio books from RFB&D? > > > hello all. > > I am unconvinced that after NLS Daisy collection of audio books, the > NLS/State library collection of audio books on tape and audible.com, RFB&D > is worth exploring. Now Pl keep in mind I'm only interested in audio books > recorded by real humans and not text based books read out by your speech > synthesizer. > > For such audio books, does RFB&D really has a considerable unique selection > that I cant find in the other 3 sources above? Is it really worth my time > to deal with that site? Or is RFB&D going to be so redundant that I > shouldn't even bother? > > Prateek > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the > message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. 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