[ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
- From: "Omar Binno" <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 13:05:19 -0400
MessageI'm not familiar with bookshare, but I know that with rfb&d you would
have to send them a copy of the book in order for them to record it, and that's
if they decide they want to record it. I've looked into having services that
scan books into pdf's but they seemed really pricey; although I didn't research
that enough. I'd be curious to see some responses here as well. A friend of
mine had open book from freedom scientific, and I messed around with that a
bit, but it seems a big hassle to take the book apart and scan page by page.
lol I'd rather pay someone to do that, but again, the cost of such a service
seems high. Some people who use open book say you don't have to take the book
apart, but from messing with it, it seemed to me that the only way to get an
accurate scan with that is to take it apart or the scanner doesn't get all the
letters at the edgeof the pages where they connect.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Gibbs
To: blindgeekzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:50 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
Dear All,
I recently purchased a copy of "Music Notation" by Gardner Reed. This is
the bible of print notation conventions. I asked prior to buying the book and
found that it was not part of the collection of RFB&D or Book Share. Since I
don't know how either of those services work, I'd like to know which of them is
the best to go to and ask them to consider including this book in their
collection. Failing that, are there services that would scan an entire book
into PDF for a fee? I don't own a Sara or Open Book and don't want to buy one
for this purpose.
Anyway, if anyone has a suggestion as to how to make this book as
accessible as possible, I'd love to know.
Thanks,
Kevin
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