Well, just about every note taking device that has a braille display will read .txt files, which is the format that all PG books are in. It's not perfect, but it's certainly doable.
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To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 3:02 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] project gutevberg books.
Oh. I was thinking we could get them donated. I didn't realize we'd have to pay. I thought all the PG books were scanned and proofed etc by volunteers, and the books I had in mind getting were ones unavailable otherwise. Can PG books be downloaded and "read" in braille or daisy? If so, then I guess it wouldn't matter whether or not bookshare had a copy. Cindy --- Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Jim will want to comment further on this, but I believe the thinking here is that if the books are available already on Gutenberg then our limited resources are better spent getting different books into the Bookshare collection. Lisa From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:48:55 -0400 To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: September's fund-raiser Hi, Linda. I would have to change the tense of the word originate to originated. Bookshare licensed a block of public domain books from Gutenberg shortly after it opened its doors six years ago, but unless something new has happened, we no longer receive books from them. We are also not allowed to submit books from their collection unless we scan them ourselves. So in my mind, we are actually competitors of a sort, 2 organizations who for whatever reason do not share our resources of public domain books. I'm not saying that the work of Gutenberg isn't worthy of donations. I will say that I think it's really silly that we can't work together to continue making additional public domain books available to both organizations. Monica Willyard Linda Adams wrote: > Hi, Julie. For some reason, any message I send to your e-mail address bounces > back to me, so I'll mention something here. An organization donation > possibility might be www.gutenberg.net <http://www.gutenberg.net> . That is > where most of Bookshare's public domain books originate. > > Linda Adams >____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxPut the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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