[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question re "reading" footnote numbers and quotation marks
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:48:33 -0800 (PST)
Oh, I wasn't planning to change anything. All the
notes and the bibliography and the idex are at the end
of the book. In fact, the book is already in the
collection rated Excellent. I'm reading a print copy
myself because it sounded interesting. But I was
thinking of writing a brief review for the one in the
collection in which I would warn about the
multitudinous quotation marks and footnote numbers in
each chapter. Perhaps there's a way Braille readers
and/or daisy readers can turn off punctuation and can
read the text without those being stated. If I had to
hear the numbers every few phrases I think I'd go
nuts.
Cindy
-- Amy Goldring Tajalli
<agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have often seen books with dual footnotes:
> informational ones at the
> bottom of the page, source ones in a list at the end
> of the the text of the
> book Labeled "Footnotes" and consisting exclusively
> of sources. Oddly,
> there is usually another "List of Sources" or
> "Bibliography" sometimes
> designated "of Sources" if followed by a
> "Bibliography for Further
> Readings".
>
> I don't think it would be proper to change whatever
> designations there are
> but after the first source footnote number it might
> be acceptable to put a
> "reader's note" at the bottom of the page stating
> that all the footnotes
> are source notes and are found at the end of the [or
> wherever and under what
> title if any]. That would not be infringing upon any
> rights limited to the
> author or publisher but could be an aide to the
> blind reader and should not,
> therefore, be objected to by said author or
> publisher. Since the question
> of "rights" is involved you might ask Jim or John
> about the legal position
> in terms of copyright agreements with publishers.
> Other than that I can see
> no objection. I have often found such notations in
> RFB&D books. [A copy of
> the Kipling was donated to me after having been
> recorded by them and I found
> typed notes taped in it that had been included
> orally in the recordings but
> which I excluded as irrelevvant for the Bookshare
> copy.]
>
> Amy
> omsm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
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> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 3:04 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question re "reading"
> footnote numbers and
> quotation marks
>
>
> > I'm reading a print book, a copy of which is in
> the
> > bookshare collection. I read another book by the
> same
> > author which was quite readable. This one has
> > unnumerable footnote numbers (the footnotes
> themselves
> > are all iat the end of the book) and quotation
> > marks--phrase quotes from sources in sentences and
> he
> > notes within and at the end of the sentences.
> >
> > At a sighted person I can mentally bypass them,
> though
> > not as well as I'd like, but I'm wondering if they
> > would be really annoying to someone reading in
> Braille
> > or Daisy. I'm asking because I'm wondering if I
> should
> > write a brief review mentioning this so readers
> can be
> > forewarned.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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