[bksvol-discuss] Re: about braille
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:40:31 -0500
hehehe Thanks, I think that is true. :-) Unfortunately I have had a book
with a missing page slip through. I have no idea how I didn't notice. The
book didn't have page numbers, but something must have gone wrong with my
reading too.
About Microsoft Speech, It was the speech I suggested was only slightly
better than the first synthesizer ever made. It seems to have something
jammed up it's nose as well. <g> To each his or her own I guess.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
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From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:37 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: about braille
> Sarah, not only your phobias make you the perfect volunteer, but you
> would be very good as a tester. Testers spend their waking hours (and
> often sleeping hours) thinking about all the ways things can go wrong.
> And when things do not go wrong, we worry about what we did wrong in
> preventing wrong things from happening.
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> Seriously, I hate incomplete books with absolute passion!
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> G.
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> Guido D. Corona
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> I just thought of another question for everyone. :-)
> I wonder if I am the only person who has this fobia of what I need or want
> to read not being complete. I know that is a common enough problem, but I
> am unreasonably stressed about it when ever I read. I guess it first came
> from running out of text in the volume of a book I currently had, but
> somehow I emotionally expect something to be missing from everything now.
> In scans that is common enough, so my fear is a bit reasonable. It is
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> the people who are convinced their plane is going to crash although most
> do
> not. I am afraid what I am reading will run out before the end even
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> the majority of the things I start reading, I can also finish reading. It
> is far more emotional than rational.
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> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
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