[bksvol-discuss] Re: feed my addiction

  • From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 16:16:15 -0400

Ooooh, I am so jealous, smile, about the Juliet, as I have been wanting one 
of those for years, smile.

Welcome to the family.


Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

      -- Vance Havner
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:26 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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