[bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue for Monday Meeting
- From: "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:23:45 -0500
The issue is to be able to refer other people, not BookShare users, to the
exact place where material can be found. This is necessary for footnoting,
for using the book's contents page, and for being referred by the book
itself.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue
for Monday Meeting
> 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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