Re: reading books
- From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 02:27:34 -0700
Hi Everyone,
I don't remember all of the circumstances, but I did hear from a friend of
someone who lived on the East Coast and used her Optacon to read ... I think
it was books in Russian. Don't remember the lady's name or whether she
still lives back East, but I'm sure the lady read books in whatever her
native language was.
Linda Gehres
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christo de Klerk" <cjdk@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 11:22 PM
Subject: RE: reading books
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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