[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about educational and children's books
- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:34:23 -0500
Hi Gwen. Most of the books for older kids, grades 4 and up, don't have very
many pictures. Some have no pictures at all. If you're scanning with
Kurzweil, it usually does a nice job of scanning around pictures. It just
ignores them unless they have captions.
I like to scan books meant for middle or high school students because they
are more interesting and have few pictures. Having said that, I'm about to
try doing a Raggedy Ann book about a candy house. I'm hoping it'll turn out
well. I plan to bribe my dad to describe the pictures so I can include
descriptions. I loved the book when I was a kid, and I want to share it.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about educational and children's books
Are there any books either children's or education that fall under this
grant that don't have pictures in them.
I'd hate to try and do a book, if it had pictures in it that I couldn't
see.
If there are such books, I'd be interested in knowing if a totally blind
person can scan such books.
That is why I've stayed away from things like that.
For a blind person, they'd have to have a book without all those things.
Cause a lot of us don't have a team, so there would be no way for like me to
scan such material.
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