Hi. This is very interesting. What do you mean that you get
magazines via email? Do you mean generally available mailing lists
or something else? I know you can get some NLS magazines that way
but they're for the public. You can have it send you email when a
new issue is posted but there isn't an easy way to actually get the
magazine. Also, what do you mean by errors in Web-Braille? With the
older books, that's natural because they are scans but I've never
found an error in the newer titles. Also, to give another example of
why bookshare is better than NLS, Shelley just scanned and submitted
the John Dunning book about vintage radio. It's literally an
encyclopedia and is many hundreds of pages. NLS has it but only on
cassette. It is three huge containers and I think 28 sides or
more. It's impossible to find anything, the index itself takes up
the first side. Maybe that's 28 cassettes, I'm not sure
now. Anyway, it should be up on bookshare now in one big file. That
is vastly easier to search than all those cassettes. Thanks to
Shelley for scanning it!
At 08:01 PM 2/18/2006, you wrote:
I get some magazines in my email, some on cassette, and books online, and some through the mail. I love having the freedom of choosing what I want to read and if it isn't available, than I make it available.
Web Braille is nice, but they also have errors, just not as many. Course doing transcription, I can see why it takes months, and sometimes years for books to become available.
