[bookshare-discuss] Re: Requesting some Help with the List
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:37:02 -0500
Hi, Brenda! I currently use a very old BrailleNote which does not have the
Web browser. However, I can tell you that you won't find the New York Times
by doing a typical search of the site. As Peter said, you must first go to
the Periodicals page. Then you go to the combo box with the list of
newspapers. Someone else will need to take it from there for you, because I
don't know the commands for navigating combo boxes in keyWeb.
As a response to your other comments, most of the volunteers who scan books
for Bookshare are in fact blind or visually impaired, so that really isn't
an issue here. Take care!
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brenda Mueller" <brendin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:14 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Requesting some Help with the List
> With all due respect, those scanners work hard. I don't mind finding out
how much effort it took to get my book ready to read. I'm not sure what
this list did before, I'm just a newby. Who knows? Maybe I'll learn enough
to put some books up there, too. Blind people can scan, too. Just a
thought.
> Hey is this question appropriate for this list? I want to read the New
York Times and other newspapers from Bookshare. I got the New York Times
once, but can't seem to do it now. Could someone with a Braille Note or
Voice Note explain what you do to get the papers and such. I'm always stuck
at this place where you type in the title for what you want. I typed in
"New York Times," and the system threw me back to books that contained those
words, but no New York Times. What am I doing wrong? It may be my fault.
Why can't I just get a list of titles of Newspapers and such and just return
to go to that paper?
>
> Brenda Mueller
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Peter Scialli" <Peter.s@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:19:09 -0400
> >Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Requesting some Help with the List
>
> > Hey folks,
> > There seems to be a mass exodus from the General Discussion list
lately.
> >I think this is because there has been a fair amount of chatter on
subjects
> >that might be better served on the Volunteer list. Topics such as
scanning,
> >OCR, book processing, that sort of thing may be of relatively little
> >interest to most of the people who've signed up for the General
Discussion.
> >We'd rather see the discussion list used for topics such as using the
site,
> >third party applications and devices, content, wish list, etc. I think
it
> >would really smooth things out if you avid book scanners keep the
technical
> >stuff over with the rest of the volunteers. Thanks.
> >________________________
> >Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
> >Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org
> >www.bookshare.org
> >A Project of The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
> >peter @benetech.org
> >www.benetech.org
>
>
>
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