Dear Readers, Robert and Cindy R.,
Posting for less than a day and I'm already confusing people.
Always Turning Pages
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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