[ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
- From: Charles Marston <rumbero73@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:42:59 -0400
Omar:
Omar:
From my personal experience, I have never had to tare a book apart in order to
scann it. Open Book is able to compensate for pages that are not completely
flat or perfectly strait on the scanning surface. However, with some really
bulky books, you do run into some problems such as missing letters. However,
at least in my case, I never had to take the book apart for scanning.
From: omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:08:49 -0400
Charles,
Do you find that with open book you have to tare the book apart for the best
scan possible?
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Marston
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:05 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
Kevin:
BookShare membership is $50 per year. They have many volunteers who both scann
and review the books before making them available to members. I don't know for
sure but I imagine they could scann a book that you send and make it available
to all members. I am pretty sure they use Open Book to do this. I have it
myself and it does a very good job with most books. however, keep in mind that
OB is designed to ignore pictures and graphs on the pages. Given that this
book on music notation may have a lot of pictures or graphs, I am sure you will
get many confusing pages. I believe the volunteers concentrate on the text, so
I don't think they would spend any time if at all in fixing the mistakes caused
by the graphs. However, if this book is more like a dictionary with small
pictures and a lot of text explaining the uses of the signs, I think you could
get most of it with OB.
I believe that in order to get services from RFB, you need to be a student.
So, if you are a student, you can get their help and this should not cost you.
From: kevjazz@xxxxxxxxx
To: blindgeekzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:50:37 -0500
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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