[access-uk] Re: Am I correct in thinking that people from the UK can not use bookshare.org?
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:17:38 +0100
In short Alex, No. Bookshare is, for the most part, available to US citizens
only - maybe those in Canda too, but not outside North America.
There is at least one exception, namely O'reily computer booksand maybe one or
two other series of this sort of technical matter.
From time to time a chorus can be heard singing "Why are we waiting?" for a
UK version of Bookshare. Goes without saying, RNIB and no body else is saying
anything about that.
I don't know about your Braille options I'm afraid. Regarding the question
you were asking about Braille transcription, well, In Touch used to havean
archive which went back a long way, but I don't know where that's located
these days, if its still available that is.
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Alexander Shannon
Hi all,
on a thread I started regarding transcribing books into Braille, I talked in
my message about a problem I was having in getting a book by the author Dick
Francis, in grade two Braille.
"but today I
wanted to see if the book Break in, by Dick Francis was available in
Braille.
I initially contacted the NLb to see if they had a Braille copy, but was
told that they did not, neither did the CNIB with whom the NLB have an
arrangement. I was however told that the NLB have a reader request
scheme.
Is this what was discussed on In Touch?
I also contacted the RNIB but they did not have a Braille copy of this book
in their Braille library which implies that there is not a single copy of
this book in Braille in the UK"
My point I was making in the above paragraph is that if the sequels to
Brake IN, namely Wiphand and Bolt, are available from the NLB in
Braille, why is brake IN not available in the same format from any UK
supplier of Braille library books?
Which then brings me to the reason for this message. Assuming that I can
not obtain a Braille copy of the book mentioned in the above paragraphs in
he UK, is it possible and legal for someone in the UK to obtain a copy of a
book by a British Author that has been made available to the visually
Impaired in the USA via bookshare?
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