Hi, Cindy and Mary! actually, thankfully, the paperless Braille devices
such as the BrailleNote work in the same way. When you turn off the device
while reading a book, or when you change to a different file and return to
your book later, you can pick up right where you left off. Ahh, the
blessings of modern technology! <Smile>
Jana, who has read quite enough e-mail for one day and is off to continue
reading a novel with her beloved BrailleNote, affectionately dubbed Theo!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue
for Monday Meeting
Cindy,
Many of the devices we use to listen to books remember where you were when you close out of the book. And if they don't, then what good is a page number for finding the place? Better to just enter something like
*** which you can then search on and find your place that way and get rid of the ***. I'd never remember a page number from one time to the next. Braille hard copy readers use bookmarks just like print hard copy
readers do. I can't speak to the folks who use paperless braille, like the braille note. I don't know if that device remembers your stopping place, but I'd venture to say that a page number in and of itself offers no help
unless you remember it from one time to the next, whether one is using speech or braille to access the print. The Daisy format is good, because it offers the ability to get to the page number if one wants it and not if one
doesn't. It satisfies both categories. Retained print page numbers are used to provide the page numbers for the daisy books.
The difference between reading hard copy braille and listening to speech is that with the former, you have the ability to automatically skip things like top of page headers or page numbers, like you can do when you
read print. If one is listening with speech, one has no choice but to hear all that stuff because one listens serially without the option to just ignore the existence of the stuff at the top of the page.
Mary
