[bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS's Taopes and electronic files

  • From: "Natalie B." <lemina007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:09:46 -1000

Everyone is sharing, so I thought I'd share. The most memorable reader to me was the elderly gentleman who constantly licked his lips. Every three or four words, lick lick. When you're reading a book for school, that is totally distracting!

Natalie B.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:55 PM
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I like the Yawns too, which was what I was feeling at that point too, smile.


Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com

Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
Puppies are the joy at one end.
Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
Carolyn Alexander

----- Original Message ----- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:09 PM
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Someone actually burped in one of my textbooks. It cracked me up, but also kind of appalled me.

Shannon
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS's Taopes and electronic files



Oh, yes.

RFB and D if they had the book i needed for college, the volunteers
sounded
just as enthusiazed as I was in reading it.

Smile.

And I always loved the ones who ate gum while they read.

Smile.

Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Alumni Association Board
www.guidedogs.com

Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
Puppies are the joy at one end.
Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
Carolyn Alexander

----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS's Taopes and electronic files



amen. I looked for Kipling and there was only one volume very well
recorded
but when I wanted to hear it again It had disappeared. I got rfb to
record
what turned out to be the complete kipling but then had to deal with
people
reading poetry with no real knowledge of how to do it and with difficulty
pronouncing some of the Names and names of places - understandable if you
are not familiar with India or 19th Century British army terminology.
Though
even today I would guess it would not be hard to find kids who have read
the
poetry in The Jungle Books or the Just So Stories or their parents, too. I
appreciate the work rfb volunteers went through to record that tome but I
wanted the poems as he wrote them so I scanned the book with Kurzweil and
am
now trying to make sure the poems scan properly (scan as in lines as K
wrote
them of the length he wanted them). I may have to submith the Kurzweil
copy which scan (copied) the pages correctly but they don't always come
out
that way and I was warned that theBookshare computer would ignore the
lines
much as they did in other books of poetry I have gotten but I can only try
to get someone to realize the importanct of the lines. However, I have
hopes
even If I cannot do it. In any event it has to be better, even with a
computer voice, that what I heard. in the well meant recording.


Amy
omst


----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] NLS's Taopes and electronic files



Someone, I believe it was on here was wondering why we should work on
books
already recorded on cassette by NLS.

I have a story to tell and how to illustrate a good advantage for doing
just
that.

I borrowed from my local cooperating branch a copy of

Rilla of Ingleside.

It arrived her the other day and I popped it into the player, have been
wanteding to read this and had Just finished Rainbow valley.

Well... the tape was old, and warped, and no matter all the "usual"
tricks,
I couldn't get the tape to play properly.

So... after being disgusted by it, putting it back into its little green
box, slapping the string on the latch and thinking I would call them
today
about it, I had a brainstorm.

I got online, found Rilla of Ingleside in the Bookshare collection and
grabbed it, popped it into the book courier and all was well again.

I do like listening to human readers though some of them are quite
grating
on me, but I still like the flexibility of choosing what format works
best
for me.

Smile.

This isn't the first time this has happened, but... it was the most
recent.

Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Alumni Association Board
www.guidedogs.com

Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
Puppies are the joy at one end.
Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
Carolyn Alexander


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