Re: [silk] reading scanned/digital text....

[ashok]

(just tested the ipod reader thing....it
seems to work ! the only minor glitch is the formatting of 
the text is a bit off....but that is
probably because of the )


sastry wrote on 08/11/2006 10:32:54 AM:
> (at the oldest). After that your  eyesight starts playing up
and you start 
> looking for bigger and bigger text (eg one alphabet per screenful)
or when 
> you get to my age - braille starts getting more and more attractive.
> 

i had a physics tutor during my schooldays
who was partially blind.  we would sit in a darkened 
room, and and ask us to read out the
lessons and questions by turn. all explanations and 
answers were verbalized.

he was so good at it, he could work
out solutions to mathematical equations in his head. 
certain sounds aggravated him, like
the clicking of a ball point pen.   soon, ball point 
pens were completely forbidden during
his sessions.    

on some evenings, when i reached his
house, he would be seated on a recliner in the 
verandah, and a  young girl from
the neighborhood would be reading a chapter out to him 
from a withered novel authored by someone
called jorge luis borges.   

many years later,  in an airline
bookshop i found a book by borges, and out of curiousity 
began reading it.  there was a
brief bio at the beginning of the book -- apparently borges 
was also blind, and never learnt braille.