[bksvol-discuss] Re: Hymnals in etext or on bookshare
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:43:17 -0500
The sad thing, is though the price they are asking for it.
I mean, no book is worth $1000 for charge, and if I ordered it it would be
$400, I have a problem with this, I don't know why but I just do, smile.
Maybe it is my independent spirit and my father's thriftiness, but I know,
that if all else fails, and I think, I have a lead, on one thanks to someone
on the Bookshare list, I could scan it, for a heck of a lot less.
Sigh.
I have been pasting the hymns in, they email them to me, into the bulletin
and then embossing it, and it works great, I started putting it into a
thring ring binder, and found I could hold and read at the same time. And
keep up most of the time, not bad for only learning Braille as a teenager.
My poor Braille Blazer though, smile. Will be getting a new embosser once I
have a real job, smile, as Freedom Scientific doesn't even service them
anymore. Good little monsters though.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Hymnals in etext or on bookshare
Tony
What makes the Presbyterian hymnal 18 volumes is that is hand-transcribed
braille on a single side of a page.
Adding to the bulk is that the transcribers chose to never begin a verse
or chorus on a page
unless it could be completed on that page.
The LBW, on the other hand, is a press braille book packaged in 3
volumes.
Both may contain a similar amount of material; but the LBW is packaged
better at least for transportability.
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