First of all, we don't need to justify any way we gain access to books. I know many sighted people who never buy books be they hard copy or otherwise. They borrow them from public libraries and pay nothing. I think that fact that we now have so many sources of reading material is a truly marvelous state of affairs. So it comes down to affordability and availability. Many people with print disabilities are either unemployed or under employed. They shouldn't be chided for downloading books from Bookshare or NLS any more than we would chide sighted people for borrowing books from a library. I buy books from Audible, ibooks, and Kindle. I like Audible books a lot, in that my hearing loss makes it less pleasant to listen to sweet Samantha. However, that's my choice. And, that's what this is all about, choice! Isn't it great that we now have so many?
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On May 13, 2013, at 5:59 AM, Kimberly <kimbersinbox1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <motte...@gmail.com> 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 >> motte...@gmail.com >> >> >> -- >> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
