[bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS's Taopes and electronic files
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:55:33 -0400
I like the Yawns too, which was what I was feeling at that point too, smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
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From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS's Taopes and electronic files
Someone actually burped in one of my textbooks. It cracked me up, but also
kind of appalled me.
Shannon
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From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS's Taopes and electronic files
> Oh, yes.
>
> RFB and D if they had the book i needed for college, the volunteers
> sounded
> just as enthusiazed as I was in reading it.
>
> Smile.
>
> And I always loved the ones who ate gum while they read.
>
> Smile.
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
> and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Alumni Association Board
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
> Puppies are the joy at one end.
> Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
> Carolyn Alexander
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:09 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS's Taopes and electronic files
>
>
> amen. I looked for Kipling and there was only one volume very well
> recorded
> but when I wanted to hear it again It had disappeared. I got rfb to
> record
> what turned out to be the complete kipling but then had to deal with
> people
> reading poetry with no real knowledge of how to do it and with difficulty
> pronouncing some of the Names and names of places - understandable if you
> are not familiar with India or 19th Century British army terminology.
> Though
> even today I would guess it would not be hard to find kids who have read
> the
> poetry in The Jungle Books or the Just So Stories or their parents, too. I
> appreciate the work rfb volunteers went through to record that tome but I
> wanted the poems as he wrote them so I scanned the book with Kurzweil and
> am
> now trying to make sure the poems scan properly (scan as in lines as K
> wrote
> them of the length he wanted them). I may have to submith the Kurzweil
> copy which scan (copied) the pages correctly but they don't always come
> out
> that way and I was warned that theBookshare computer would ignore the
> lines
> much as they did in other books of poetry I have gotten but I can only try
> to get someone to realize the importanct of the lines. However, I have
> hopes
> even If I cannot do it. In any event it has to be better, even with a
> computer voice, that what I heard. in the well meant recording.
>
> Amy
> omst
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:25 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] NLS's Taopes and electronic files
>
>
>> Someone, I believe it was on here was wondering why we should work on
>> books
>> already recorded on cassette by NLS.
>>
>> I have a story to tell and how to illustrate a good advantage for doing
>> just
>> that.
>>
>> I borrowed from my local cooperating branch a copy of
>>
>> Rilla of Ingleside.
>>
>> It arrived her the other day and I popped it into the player, have been
>> wanteding to read this and had Just finished Rainbow valley.
>>
>> Well... the tape was old, and warped, and no matter all the "usual"
>> tricks,
>> I couldn't get the tape to play properly.
>>
>> So... after being disgusted by it, putting it back into its little green
>> box, slapping the string on the latch and thinking I would call them
>> today
>> about it, I had a brainstorm.
>>
>> I got online, found Rilla of Ingleside in the Bookshare collection and
>> grabbed it, popped it into the book courier and all was well again.
>>
>> I do like listening to human readers though some of them are quite
>> grating
>> on me, but I still like the flexibility of choosing what format works
>> best
>> for me.
>>
>> Smile.
>>
>> This isn't the first time this has happened, but... it was the most
>> recent.
>>
>> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
>> and Judson, guiding golden
>> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
>> Graduate Alumni Association Board
>> www.guidedogs.com
>>
>> Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
>> Puppies are the joy at one end.
>> Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
>> Carolyn Alexander
>>
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