[bksvol-discuss] OT: someone who appreciates us and new blog site
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 18:33:36 -0700 (PDT)
Let me discuss things in reverse order. smile
The new features of bookshare have me thoroughly confused. I suppose the proper
place for what I'm about to share with you belongs on the new blog, but I don't
know how to sign up for it or post to it; besides, I don't think I want to
sign up for it; already I spend too much time reading and occasionally
answering list posts. I suppose, however, that if people posted on the blog,
there would be fewer OT posts on the email lists, and so less to read--unless
one subscribed to the blog--grin.
I have to share this with all of you. Some people are *so* nice and go the
extra mile.
I am proofreading Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty.
The text is interesting, and a pleasure to read. However, there are a
lot of photographs, both snapshots of the heroes when they were younger and
in the service, and full-page photographs of the Medal-of-Honor winners taken
for the book. The photographer of the latter is Nick Del Calzo;(he has a web
page and it lists places where his photographs can be seen and also books for
which he has supplied photographs.
I have been doing my best to describe for you readers the photographs. In some
cases I recognize or can guess at the location in which the subject was
photographed. However, yesterday I was stumped. The statue has too many figures
on it for me to attempt to describe it, and I could not find it by googling, so
I took a chance and wrote to Mr. Del Calzo, identifying myself as a volunteer
for bookshare.org and asking him if he would please be kind enough to identify
the monument for me.
When I opened my email l today, there was his reply. He had taken the trouble
to write
to the subject himself,Lieutenant Harold Fritz, to ask him, and Lt. Fritz.
replied to him, and the answer was forwarded to me. Mr. DelCalZo also said that
he appreciated the work we volunteers do (I had explained that volunteers scan
and proofread print books to add to the bookshare collection so that blind
and others with disabilities who can't read books the way sighted people can
can have access to them)
Now, if you download and read Medal of Honor (when I finally finish proofing
it),
you'll see that the man on p. 100 is standing in front ofthe 100-year
old-soldiers and sailors monument located
in the Peoria County Courthouse square,Peoria, Illinois. It
represents/honors those Peoria area men and women who served in the civil war.
I suspected that the statue was somewhere in Illinois, since that's where Lt.
Fritz is living, but I gave up searching for war memorials in Illinois. If you
live in Peoria, you can visit it. Otherwise, perhaps you can find a photo
online and can find someone who is sighted to describe it to you.Describing
something orally is a alot easier than writing the description; I do not do
that well, partly because I do not have the patience to read over and correct
the grammatical structure of what I have writen.
If anyone is willing to read my descriptions and edit/rewrite them, when the
book is in the collection, I'll send the pages and will ask Carrie to give you
the $2.50 credit for proofreading. Since they are not copyrighted, there should
be no problem.
Cindy
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
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