[access-uk] Magazines
- From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:27:51 -0000
Ray, I prefer all the Scottish Braille Press magazines, mainly for their
content as much as anything else. I get all four of them: the Sporting Record,
Spectrum, Home Help and Madam. But then I get a lot of RNIB mags too, all in
Braille, because I prefer reading shorter articles and browsing bits and pieces
than getting into longer books these days. That's more to do with
concentration through pain than anything else, because I used to read a lot
more than I do now.
But I agree there is so much more online now that some of what is printed, by
the time it reaches your fingers, is outdated. And, for those who like Email
and speech, TNAUK cover a wide variety of publications, but I don't subscribe
to these as I like my Braille to be honest, and it takes me away from sitting
at the computer all the time. And while I use my display, and would hate to be
without it, there isn't a substitute for getting ripped into a Braille mag and
flicking through it quickly.
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray's Home
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Unsubbing And Access IT
I'm the wrong person to ask about RNIB, or Scotish Braille Press publications
for that matter. They seem on the pricey side to me, but do bear in mind much
of the cost of any mag. is up-front, in actually producing the copy, though
you'd have thought Brailling must cost a fair bit.
I think particularly here on this sort of list, we must remember that likely
most of us now are getting info through websites, email lists, digests,
podcasts and the like. I simply wouldn't look to RNIB for technical matter now.
I'm sure the same goes more and more for other areas of interest, like books,
politics, music and so on. No end of magazines and newspapers you can
subscribe to on-line. and many do.
If only a way of bringing down the cost of ownership of Braille displays
could be put in place, then those who prefer Braille over speech access could
be satisfied by web-based distribution.
Cheers,
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
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-----Original Message-----
I stopped subscribing to it, because the export price became very
expensive, and they took lots of articles from Access World, which is free. The
other thing I can't understand is why RNIB charges me the same price for
braille as for email, I could sort of understand that with braille it's the
cost of paper and stuff, but nearly 30 pounds a year, and quite a thin
magazine, I just stopped. I prefer Infotech magazine, because you can of course
listen to a sort of review of the product. Are there any other good technology
newsletters around? There used to be one called wyfiwyg, but it's also stopped.
Ari
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