Brenda, You get to the periodicals section by selecting the periodicals link from the navigation bar at the top of the page. They are not mixed in with the books. ________________________ 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Mueller" <brendin@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:14 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 > > >