[bksvol-discuss] Re: feed my addiction
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 23:26:43 -0400
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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