This is true.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda Ingraham
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 4:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Justification for using Kindle vs. downloading from Bookshare
Hi Andy,
For me personally, cookbooks and knitting books are great references that
the reader can go back to time and time again. Plus professional reference
books.
Lynda
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Andy Baracco
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Justification for using Kindle vs. downloading from Bookshare
Why would you want to buy a book after you already read it?
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 2:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Justification for using Kindle vs. downloading from Bookshare
Hi, Cara.
As someone else pointed out, Bookshare is kind of like a library. Well,
admittedly, you can keep the books from Bookshare. But now that I am able
to, I view it as a way to check out a book and read it, then find it if I
like it and purchase. It's what my Mom did with print books. Still does.
She'll go to the library, check out a copy, read it, and if she likes it,
will purchase it in hardcover or Kindle. I see Bookshare in a similar way,
since I don't know how well Overdrive works for checking out accessible
e-books to borrow, and I don't want to check out a library book and risk
damaging it by scanning it. I'm ore than happy to shell out money when I
have it, though, to get books, especially now. Reading with the Kindle app
is so slick, even compared to iBooks.
Jane
On May 12, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
Might I propose an additional tach here?
Now that we have a much greater accessibility to a vast library of
books which we never had before, might it be a good idea to take one
more step toward equality by purchasing books and only using BookShare
as a last resort when we cannot find a book we need / really want?
This to me at least, fosters equality and a sense of empowerment. Yes?
This also shows the makers of accessible reading apps and platforms
that we not only appreciate their work but value their work. Not to
mention the fact that we are now able to contribute to an author in
the same way as the literate population as a whole does.
This is truly an important and valuable thing, is it not?
Thanks so much for such a great thread! Y'all rock!
Smiles,
Cara :)
On May 12, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Jane <[email protected]> wrote:
That is what I am doing, I find a book in another format, and read it.
If I like it, I'll try to buy it.
Jane
On May 12, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Arnold Schmidt <[email protected]>
wrote:
One big advantage to the kindle app is the amazing number of books
we, as blind readers, now have the ability to access in one place.
It was stated, in a recent Tech Doctor podcast, that this number is
1.8 million (I have not confirmed this.) Not all these books will be
readable with this app (the ones that are images), and not all books
on Amazon are available through Kindle, but just having such a large
number of readable books is the biggest advantage. Another advantage
is how quickly we will be able to buy these books after they are
issued as print copies. They probably are available through kindle
within a few days of publication.
The Nook, and Google Books services will have some of them, but
Amazon has the largest number of eBooks.
That having been written, as a blind reader, because I could not own
books at a reasonable price, I am very use to borrowing and reading
books, and until recently, returning them. So, I assure you, I check
Bookshare, Bard, Learning Ally, or any other legal source from which
I can borrow and read books, before I buy them.
Arnold Schmidt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileens Misrahi"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:49 AM
Subject: Justification for using Kindle vs. downloading from
Bookshare
Hello List,
Besides the obvious of,Bookshare not having a particular book, what
other advantages does the Kindle app have over using Bookshare to
access books? I will check Bookshare first to see if the book that I
want to read is there to download because of the ability to download
the book for free. I have "Read2Go" & Voice Dream apps on the phone
to accomplish this. What features in the Kindle app is unique to app
that is not in the other apps? Input on this would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Best,
Eileen
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