My first book was "Close Encounters of the 3rd kind, because my Angel-Bride Margie and I were going to see it. I didn't finish the book before we went to the movie, but for a pretty good way into the movie, I DVS'ed the movie for her. What really shocked me was when I gained enough speed to read the book with a sense of real enthusiasm and emotions springing from the text. That was my first real reading experience with it from my perspective. I then took on The Star Fleet Manual, and actually looked at uniform designs, my first attempts at looking at images as well as text. I read a wide variety of books from "Selected Writings of Chairman Mao" my first possession actually printed in China. Star Trek and James Bond novels. It was the beginning of a personal print collection which really burgeoned with my acquisition of a KPR model 30 in August of 1989 where my Optacon use held me in good stead when I used the hand camera. Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: <dacoleman@xxxxxxx> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <Dacoleman@xxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:27 PM Subject: [optacon-l] Re: optacon training > Nick and list, > Your observations remind me of a remarkable (to me) experience I had when > I first began gaining a little real proficiency in reading with the > optacon. I had been struggling with the lessons and with some of that > nasty junk mail, when I suddenly decided to read a book on the Stoic > philosophers. Within a few hours I was reading as i had thought I'd never > be able to. And after that I did a much better job with the junk mail > besides! > > to view the list archives, go to: > > www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l > > To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. > > Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: > > optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the message subject. > to view the list archives, go to: www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.