[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 13:23:22 -0400
Messageit's been a while, but I had a 400 page book that was gonna be about
$190.
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From: Kevin Gibbs
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:19 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
Would you care to define expensive?
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:05 PM
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Subject: [ddots-l] Re: O.T. Best way to get print book accessible?
I'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
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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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