[access-uk] Re: iPod shuffle ready to go?
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:52:23 +0100
... And when you break the spine of a library book in order to scan it,
they're usually not impressed.
We have to recognise here that in the time that it takes for you to scan
one book, sighted friends or colleagues could have immediately started
reading a book and skimmed about 10 others very satisfactorily within
the same time period.
We need to take the scanning out of the equation.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Barry
Sent: 15 April 2005 09:39
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: iPod shuffle ready to go?
I know what you mean. When you have spent 3 hours scanning a book from
the
library, you're a bit loathe to delete it when you take the book back.
There's also the expense of buying OCR programmes that are half decent.
Barry H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyrer, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Tyrer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:30 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: iPod shuffle ready to go?
I have no problem paying for books - book sharing isn't about getting
free
books. What really pisses me off though is having to spend three
bleeding
hours scanning the bugger in before I can read it!
JT
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Ray's Home
Sent: 14 April 2005 16:34
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: iPod shuffle ready to go?
Well Angel, if I might join in, lending libraries here in the UK are a
public service, well what's left of them! The notion of public service
has
taken quite a pasting here in the last quarter century so, not
surprisingly,
you are often hard pressed to find the latest books there.
As for 'rational' arguments for stealing, well certain theologians in
the
middle ages did argue that stealing food for survival was OK, just as
much
as you needed to stay alive that is. I guess Daman is arguing for the
right
for food for the soul, as man/woman does not live by food alone.
I can only say that what's left of my reason is down to a lot of
reading,
much of it on tape, when I was very down and depressed. The sheer farce
of
trying to study at a higher level without anything approaching the
breadth
of material available to other students has to be gone through to be
believed.
I still have just enough sight to buy books in print occasionally and
its
certainly a sad fact that your average high street bookshop these days
has
many times more books available to buy than we get our hands on in all
the
various formats. I just wonder how much those here would be prepared to
pay
to own a copy if that were an option. Seems to me that unabridged audio
books are always going to be at a premium price although I do not see
that
the margin has to be as high as it is now.
Obviously, this is a very involved subject when you get down to it. I
just
wonder how greater percentage of text material can and will be made
available, and more to the point, how? Taking the risk of resurrecting
the
format wars here, Braille versus audio versus computer etc. just how
will
the extreme demand for stuff in whatever format we want hold up to
reality?
By the way, I've shortened the whole message here as, apart from
wondering
offoff the original topic, I feared it would excede the file size
allowed on
this list!
Ray
Personal emails: Email me at
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Angel"
> Libraries give books for free because of their community obligation,
> not because of a human rite any may have. Have you tried to get the
> books you seek from sources like Audible.com. The people there have
> gone out of their way to make their site and books accessible to us.
> There is no rational explanation for stealing.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Damon Rose"
>
>> Why shouldn't access to the latest cultural input be seen as a human
> right? Libraries give reference books and novels out for free for
> similar reasons, surely?
>>
>> What about classic books of our time, thos that are social
>> commentaries
> such as 1984 or Catcher in the Rye? They're touchstones in common
> parliance,
> using the term 'big brother society' uses a character from a novel to
> shortcut, yet also add colour to, an explanation about a complicated
> concept
> that was neatly wrapped up by Orwell.
>>
>> Books like Turn of the Century in 1999 really tapped into the
> technological and social zeitgeist.
>>
>> Books such as Fast Food Nation or Jon Snow's autobiography Shooting
> History, for instance, are not exactly reference books but contain an
> awful
> lot of important and significant commentary and information.
>>
>> It's hard to draw the line and there's no good reason to continue to
>> make
> books inaccessible.
>>
>> I would prefer to pay publishers and authors for their work so that
>> they
> will continue to publish great books. I would like authors to benefit
> from
> my individual purchase. But if books are inaccessible then they kind
of
> have to accept that we steal their texts.
>>
>> In a lot of ways, they are stealing things away from us in the first
> place, we're just steeling it bak again.
>>
>> ...Damon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
Angel
>>
>> How do you figure having access to the latest novels or whatever you
>> want
> to read is a basic human rite. In which constitution does it say
> this?
> If
> you can't read print you can either purchase a scanner and reading
> software,
> or go to the library and use their equipment for such pursuits.
Though
> basic literacy has been found to be a basic human rite being able to
read
> your favorite novel is not.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Damon"
>> > Yes, it's a shame isn't it.
>> >
>> > I download illegally shared eBooks too because I can't read print.
>> >
>> > Access to knowledge and culture is a human right and, I'd say we
>> > can't really describe it as thievery. I'd describe it as taking
>> > something that should rightfully be in our domain anyway.
>> >
>> > It's only thievery if one can get it thru the normal means. If you
>> > are denied access to it, yet fundamentally it should be a human
>> > right, then
>> you
>> > have to be creative and inventive about gaining access to it.
>> >
>> > ...Damon
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Angel"
>> >
>> > > I would hate to think that to become a part of society one must
>> > > resort
>> to
>> > > thievery.
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >
>> > > > I use exactly the same argument regarding downloading tv shows
>> > > > on
>> > > BitTorrent. If the manufacturers and service providers of things
>> > > like
>> > TiVo
>> > > and Sky Digital don't bother to make their products accessible
>> > > then I'll steal their content from elsewhere in order that I can
>> > > be part of this
>> > here
>> > > society. Thank you. And yes I'd be happy to see what a
>> > > courtroom made
>> of
>> > > that too.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > Of Tyrer, Jonathan
>> > > > Sent: 13 April 2005 15:42
>> > > > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > > Subject: [access-uk] Re: iPod shuffle ready to go?
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > I wonder if I should turn myself into the police for pirating
>> > > > music
>> from
>> > > the Net. None of the pay for music sites are accessible so I am
>> > > forced
>> to
>> > > steal music instead. I'd like to go to court for that I think!
>> > > >
>> > > > JT
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > Damon Rose
>> > > >
>> > > > Here's another solution. Why don't we just all sue Apple? Or
>> > > > mail
>> them
>> > > in our droves? All the faffing around we have to do to gain a
>> > > weeny bit
>> > of
>> > > access, whilst still giving these companies our money, really
>> > > really
>> bugs
>> > > the hell out of me.
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>
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