Hi BookShare Listers,
I am annoyed at the percentage of books in Spanish added to our
collection verses those books in English added.
I am sorry, but I truly believe that when someone from another country
chooses to live in America, then that person needs to learn the
English language. I always thought that was the native language of
the U.S.A.
After all, as a person who is blind, I have had to learn to type, at a
very early age, because the world around me was a print world.
Further, if I wanted to complete my studies, and a book was not
available in Braille or recorded form, I had to hire a reader; or scan
it into my computer.
If I want to access printed food labels, I need to bring along a
person who is sighted, or I need to buy a bar-code scanner.
I just do not understand why I have joined BookShare for fifty dollars
per year when the majority of books added on Monday were not in
English.
Further, my time is valuable. Why do I need to arrow down through all
these Spanish titles or titles for children!
Might I suggest: let's have three sections of newly added books: one
for books in English, another for Books in Spanish, and a third for
books primarily read by children.
K. G. Lueders
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