[bksvol-discuss] Re: feed my addiction

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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