RE: reading books
- From: "Christo de Klerk" <cjdk@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:22:57 +0200
Hi all
I would also like to add that I have read many novels with my Optacon. Among
the books I've read with it are The Magus by John Fowles (about 540 pages)
and a book of short stories by Vladimir Nabokov (about 700 pages). At the
time I read them, they weren't available in other formats and scanners
weren't available yet. I still use the Optacon to read novels that aren't in
English, such as those in my mother tongue, Afrikaans, for which there is no
synthesised speech yet. I suppose I am more of a bookworm than the average
person and if a book isn't available in braille or audio and I want to read
it, I'll read it with my Optacon. Yes, it is slow,but it does enable me to
read books that otherwise I wouldn't have been able to read.
Regards
Christo
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From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Catherine Thomas
Sent: 01 May 2006 07:44 AM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: reading books
I have read novels with the Optacon. I just don't have time to do it any
more. I do sometimes start novels. What I do read is stuff from reference
books, books on cat care for example. Something I read for a long time was
the daily page that a person reads if they follow a program such as Al-Anon.
One of the respondents follows her diet plan using the Optacon.
I apologize if anybody got the idea that no one reads books with the
Optacon. All I menat to imply was that reading books is not the primary use
that most people make of the Optacon which the manufacturer had believed
reading books would be.
Ctherine
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