[bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue for Monday Meeting
- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:58:02 -0600
Cindy,
Many of the devices we use to listen to books remember where you were when you
close out of the book. And if they don't, then what good is a page number for
finding the place? Better to just enter something like
*** which you can then search on and find your place that way and get rid of
the ***. I'd never remember a page number from one time to the next. Braille
hard copy readers use bookmarks just like print hard copy
readers do. I can't speak to the folks who use paperless braille, like the
braille note. I don't know if that device remembers your stopping place, but
I'd venture to say that a page number in and of itself offers no help
unless you remember it from one time to the next, whether one is using speech
or braille to access the print. The Daisy format is good, because it offers the
ability to get to the page number if one wants it and not if one
doesn't. It satisfies both categories. Retained print page numbers are used to
provide the page numbers for the daisy books.
The difference between reading hard copy braille and listening to speech is
that with the former, you have the ability to automatically skip things like
top of page headers or page numbers, like you can do when you
read print. If one is listening with speech, one has no choice but to hear all
that stuff because one listens serially without the option to just ignore the
existence of the stuff at the top of the page.
Mary
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