[bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: [scheherazade] From Nan: Is reading important to you?
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:55:36 -0700 (PDT)
That's very nice of you, Nan. I hope your invitation
works. The more volunteers we can get, the more books
can get into the collection in excellent shape, and
the more sighted volunteers, the more problem books
can be resolved.
Cindy
--- Nan Hawthorne <hathorn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just sent this to all my friends and family. I
> hope it works and
> Bookshare gets more validators.
>
> Nan
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> Dear friends and family,
>
> If you know me, you know books and reading are
> important to me and share the feeling.
>
> I have started volunteering for a group called
> Bookshare.org whose mission is to turn print books
> into
> text using scanners and text conversion software.
> They
> do this for people who are blind or otherwise cannot
> read print.
>
> This is, in many ways, a better solution than tape
> recording books. Why? Because text format books can
> be read no matter what medium a print impaired
> person
> uses: screen magnification on a computer, a talking
> computer, printing in large print, even a
> refreshable
> Braille display. Plus being a simple download for
> anyone who is eligible for these materials, the
> access
> is immediate.. no waiting on an interminable waiting
> list for a book to be mailed to you by the library
> for
> the blind.
>
> What Bookshare needs now more than anything are
> volunteers who can read through books that have
> already
> been scanned to make sure the result is faithful to
> the
> original. You won't need to buy anything or pay
> anything. You just download the book, read it, then
> send it back with whatever corrections were needed.
> You get to read all the books you want and do a good
> thing at the same time.
>
> It's a relatively young organization.. maybe ten
> years
> at most. And they are into collection development.
> They do have a lot of books already scanned and just
> waiting to be checked, or "validated", before they
> can
> be released for use.
>
> One thing I most value about these text format books
> is
> that they can be searched. I do a lot of reading
> about
> Anglo Saxon England, and not everything in an audio
> book is relevant to my research. But I can't sxearch
> an audio book. So I have to read from cover to
> cover.
>
> I know you consider reading one of the most
> important
> things in your life. If you volunteer for Bookshare
> as
> a validate, which is what this task is called, you
> will
> get to read as you make it possible for others who
> want
> to but can't.
>
> If you are sighted they will ask you to write a
> short
> essay. They do this becuase in order to be able to
> use
> the copyrighted material, they must restrict use to
> those who need it. They need to make sure a sighted
> volunteer really wants to help and not just get free
> books.
>
> I hope you will take a look at www.bookshare.org and
> decide to volunteer, just as I did. I wrote this
> entire message at my own initiative because reading
> and
> volunteering are, as you well know, terribly
> important
> to me.
>
> Your friend,
>
> Nan Hawthorne
>
>
>
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