[bksvol-discuss] Re: feed my addiction

  • From: "robert tweedy" <rtweedy2@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 06:24:00 -0500

Her name is Cindy too but we will be able to tell the difference.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:29 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: feed my addiction



Robert, I think you mean Estelnalissi. This Cindy has
been here for a couple of years. I wonder about the
new Cindy, though. Is she joining the list? What is
her last name? I've thought of calling myself Old
Cindy, but I decided against it. Young-at-heart Cindy?
I guess I'll stick to Cindy R, unless her last name
begins with R.

Cindy R


- robert tweedy <rtweedy2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Welcome Cindy and as always you can call me if you
have a question while others can help you with the
brille lite and BRF files. I think between the all
uf us we can get you going.
----- Original Message ----- From: Estelnalissi
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: feed my addiction



Dear Sara and Book Sharers,

  My name is Estelnalissi which means Hope Is Sweet
in Tolkien's Elvish and I'm new to book share and
this list.

  I  subscribed yesterday. Usually I lurk longer to
learn how and what to contribute but Sarah mentioned
Star Trek books in passing in her discussion of
referencing books, and I have a box of Star Trek
hardbacks from a friend with a bookstore on Amazon.

  She'll sell me any book for fifty cents each. I'd
gladly send any of these books free to anyone on
this list for scanning and then keeping or passing
on.

  I don't know how this is done. If anyone might be
interested I could post a list of them to this list
or off list. Please let me know because I need to
give them back to her if no one is looking for them
at this time.

  About me! I'm a retired elementary teacher who has
read braille since first grade. I'm looking forward
to volunteering for Book Share, but I'm not a quick
study with computers. I have a fairly powerful Dell,
read the screen with jaws, have a new HP all in one
printer - scanner, Open Book a Braille Note, and a
Juliet 2 sided braille printer. I'm still clueless
about how to use the scanner, Open Book and the
Juliet.

  If I could only ask you one question it would be,
is it possible to download books from book share so
that they can be read in refreshable braille or
voice on the braille note?

  Also, if anyone on the list has the time or
patience to teach me anything to help me become a
productive volunteer I'd appreciate it. I write down
any instructions I get in a braille notebook and
save the post in a computer tips file.

  I'm an insatiable reader and with this huge new
reading resource I don't know where to start! The
first Book Share  book I'm reading is Playing With
Fire, an Inspector Banks mystery. Some of my
favorite authors are Charles Dickens, Dick Francis,
Sue Grafton, and John Grisham. I enjoy reading
mysteries, suspense, classics, current general
fiction, humor, cookbooks, knitting patterns, and
poetry. I have a special interest in almost any
historic, cultural or fiction book about Ireland,
Scotland and Wales and have a large collection of
them.

  I've always loved just being in the pressence of
books. I have a large print library I can't see to
read, but bought the books with the vague hope that
some day I'd be able to read them. Now their time
has come. Once I learn to scan I can not only read
them, but share them.

  That's more than enough for starters. I feel
fortunate to be in the company of other book lovers.


Always Turning Pages,

Estelnalissi
----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: feed my addiction



I try to get more when ever I can. I often wish I could stand at my local library's shelves with a hand held device capable of looking at both the library's computerized catalogue and the bookshare site. That would be the only way to get the three peaces of information I need all at once. I need the online library catalogue to tell me what is available and in the Star Trek series, the book itself from off the shelf to tell me if it is scannable, and the bookshare site to tell me if it is already available and therefore doesn't need to be scanned. At home i can check the list of star trek books my local library has against the books I can find on bookshare, but don't know if the book is scannable. I also find that the facts change before I can get the book, which can drive me crazy. It either disappears from my local library or appears on bookshare between the time I look and the time I get it. If I am at the library I can't look at the bookshare site just to check when I come accross something I would like to scan.

    Can't you tell I am rather addicted to the
Internet?  I hate being separated from my primary
source of information. ;-)

    Sarah Van Oosterwijck
    http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

----- Original Message ----- From: Kasondra payne
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] feed my addiction



I,



      Kellie, Sarah, and anyone else, please feed my
addiction for Star Trek books.  You have done a good
job so far, but please continue.  I'm willing to
validate what you scan.  Please let me know.



      Kasondra Payne






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