[bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: [scheherazade] From Nan: Is reading important to you?
- From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:35:39 -0700
John,
Thanks for doing this. I should have done it when I saw her mail. You¹re a
pro.
Lisa
On 8/22/07 12:06 PM, "John Glass" <John.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Nan,
>
> Thank you for sending out such a nice message. All of us here at Bookshare
> really appreciate all of the work volunteers put in which makes our community
> so successful.
>
>
>
> John Glass
> Customer Support Manager, Bookshare
>
> Benetech
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> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nan Hawthorne
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:07 PM
> To: Bksvol-Discuss
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] FW: [scheherazade] From Nan: Is reading important to
> you?
>
> I just sent this to all my friends and family. I hope it works and Bookshare
> gets more validators.
>
> Nan
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Dear friends and family,
>
> If you know me, you know books and reading are
> important to me and share the feeling.
>
> I have started volunteering for a group called
> Bookshare.org whose mission is to turn print books into
> text using scanners and text conversion software. They
> do this for people who are blind or otherwise cannot
> read print.
>
> This is, in many ways, a better solution than tape
> recording books. Why? Because text format books can
> be read no matter what medium a print impaired person
> uses: screen magnification on a computer, a talking
> computer, printing in large print, even a refreshable
> Braille display. Plus being a simple download for
> anyone who is eligible for these materials, the access
> is immediate.. no waiting on an interminable waiting
> list for a book to be mailed to you by the library for
> the blind.
>
> What Bookshare needs now more than anything are
> volunteers who can read through books that have already
> been scanned to make sure the result is faithful to the
> original. You won't need to buy anything or pay
> anything. You just download the book, read it, then
> send it back with whatever corrections were needed.
> You get to read all the books you want and do a good
> thing at the same time.
>
> It's a relatively young organization.. maybe ten years
> at most. And they are into collection development.
> They do have a lot of books already scanned and just
> waiting to be checked, or "validated", before they can
> be released for use.
>
> One thing I most value about these text format books is
> that they can be searched. I do a lot of reading about
> Anglo Saxon England, and not everything in an audio
> book is relevant to my research. But I can't sxearch
> an audio book. So I have to read from cover to cover.
>
> I know you consider reading one of the most important
> things in your life. If you volunteer for Bookshare as
> a validate, which is what this task is called, you will
> get to read as you make it possible for others who want
> to but can't.
>
> If you are sighted they will ask you to write a short
> essay. They do this becuase in order to be able to use
> the copyrighted material, they must restrict use to
> those who need it. They need to make sure a sighted
> volunteer really wants to help and not just get free
> books.
>
> I hope you will take a look at www.bookshare.org and
> decide to volunteer, just as I did. I wrote this
> entire message at my own initiative because reading and
> volunteering are, as you well know, terribly important
> to me.
>
> Your friend,
>
> Nan Hawthorne
>
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