Welcome to the list, Karen. I too live in Northern California, about 30 miles south of Eureka off highway 36. Where are you exactly? With the two children, I'm sure you're keeping busy! Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Harshfield" <karenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:59 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] New volunteer intro
Hi bookies -I'm a relatively new volunteer here, but I've been a bookshare member for a few years. I love digital books.I will tell you about myself: * I am a 46 year old female. * I live in California, north of San Francisco.* I'm currently employed only as a wife and mom. I have two kids, an 11 year old boy, and an almost 8 year old girl. * Until the kids appeared, I used to work as a software engineer. I'm pretty comfortable around computers. * My hobbies are knitting, outdoor activities (hiking, camping, bicycling, gardening), and reading. I also like cooking and kitchen science. * I have an unspecified type of ABCA4 retinal deterioration similar to Stargardt's disease. I am partially sighted, and I don't read well at all. Can't drive or steer a bicycle (I own the bak half of a tandem.) * Both of my children are into juvenile fantasy type books, which I try to read some of along with them. My daughter likes animal fantasy, dragons, cats, owls. So I would be interested in being involved in some of those, if there is a need.* Hardware and software that I use: 1. Bookport (from APH) 2. HP flat bed 8.5 x 14 inch scanner, about 10 years old maybe 3. I use OmniPage for OCR purposes4. I use ZoomText for my computer, and I largely rely on the speech component of this.Well, anyway, hope that's enough and not too much. Just included this list so if anyone with a similar situation wants advice or commiseration, they would know about me.- Karen Harshfield To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.0/1180 - Release Date: 12/10/2007 2:51 PM
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