[bksvol-discuss] Re: Clarifying the stripper and page number issue for Monday Meeting
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:52:03 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Jana.
Cindy-
-- Jana Jackson <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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