I buy a lot of books including novels from several different sources — amazon, audible, iBooks and nook. Before digital downloads I used to buy books on tape especially if the title was from a favorite author. I just like to support them in their writing. I also borrow a lot of books from NLS, most of these are authors who are new or otherwise unknown to me.
The thing about kindle which I find so exciting is the number and variety of books that are now available to me as a reader with a print disability. Now I can get books when my sighted friends get them. Now I can get the book my bookclub is reading and get it in a timely fashion. That is the best thing about kindle accessibility for me. Kimber Sent from Kimber's iPhone On May 12, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jane, > > Really, purchasing makes us look better? Does it also make sighted people > look better? I have plenty of sighted friends who use the local library quite > heavily. Yes, they buy some books, but almost never novels, which they read > once and don't need to keep as reference material or to revisit etc. > And given the size of our market and the fact that Amazon isn't going to know > if sighted or blind are the ones buying their Kindle books, to whom will we > be looking better buy purchasing rather than using BARD or Bookshare etc? > I've bought plenty of iBooks and some Kindle books as well and plan to > continue to do that. But I certainly don't plan to go buy every novel I read > from some source such as Bard or BookShare, just as my sighted friends do not. > > Mary > Mary Otten > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
