[access-uk] Re: Info: list of DAISY books for purchase

Hi Ray

There is indeed a list for talking books and the subscription is RNIBTalkingBooksArena-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The usual blank email will get you enrolled. We have several members of the RNIB TB staff as members to give the information we want from their viewpoint.

In their defence I would challenge Andy's comments about the poor readers as in the main we feel the readers are first rate. A very detailed testing procedure is followed to find the best possible ones and the most suitable for that particular book. All are volunteers and give their services free receiving only expenses. Some names come to mind as RNIB readers, Michael Jaystone, Sir Michael Hordern, Sir Laurence Olivier. Dame Judi Dench. None of whom could be called poor quality.

The readers for the Harry Potter books were selected by J K Rowlings herself so now you know who to blame for any shortcomings on their part. Again the ability of the reader lies in the ear of the listener. We've had many cases where one member has extolled the virtues and another member's polite comment is "You _are joking I hope"

A good or bad readier is a personal thing. What suits one may not suit another but they all have one thing in common. They are the best suitable to read that particular book in the opinion of the selector.

Come to the list and more debate can be given to it with every one either a user or staff member.

Roger


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:59 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Info: list of DAISY books for purchase


Prompted by Andy's last comment, I wonder if there is a discussion list for talking book and audio book readers? If so, then what I'm about to comment on could far better be said on such a list.

Regarding info supplied by RNIB about its talking books for sale,you are quite right Andy, they usually do not give reader details and I would guess that if you go back not very far in history a lot of the readers' names wouldn't mean anything to those other than seasoned RNIB TB subscribers, that is if the reader's name was provided. That's where experience would come in as to whether or not you liked the style of the reader suffieciently to want to buy the book. I'd like to know, by the way, whether the Captain Correlli's Mandolin reading in the RNIB list is the commercial one that I have on cassette unabridged.

Some might say though that, at the price, you cannot go far wrong. These books are very cheap and do compare with the sort of price you might pay for an ordinary paperback edition, and that has to be a good thing.

So, if anyone does have info on a TB discussion list, pleas let us know, and feel free to email me off-list if you can add anything more to my comments.

Hoping all of you are having a good Christmas celebration.
Ray

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Hi Ray -
|
| Used your link to the RNIB list of daisy books for sale, and while it says
| that the HP books are read by Stephen Fry, for others, such as Cloud Atlas
| that I am interested in, they don't give the reader, but do say it's an RNIB
| publication which leads me to suspect that it will be some unknown reader of
| their own! and this puts me off!
|
| Andy
| ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|
| For those who've not employed Google to find it, the link which leads you on
| to the full list of RNIB DAISY titles for purchase is at:
|
| http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/browse.asp?n=11&c=478&sc=0&it=2&l=2
|
| Two separate links on this page take you to fiction and non-fiction lists.
| Ray
|


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