[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers

  • From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 20:44:28 -0400

Hi all,

Jamie, not all bookshare members are blind.  Therefore, they need the pictures.

Ann P.
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:20:23AM -0800, Soronel Haetir wrote:
> This might seem like a silly question, but how do such books actually
> help anything by being part of the bookshare collection?
> 
> I assume you are talking about books like Where the Wild Things Are.
> Such books are so dependant on the pictures that I'm really not sure
> what a blind person would do with them, no matter how well the
> pictures are described.
> 
> Am I just missing something here?
> 
> On 8/1/09, Jamie Yates, CPhT <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Most children's picture books, even today, do not have page numbers. I know
> > Bookshare's new policy is that books have to have page numbers, but I don't
> > know if Bookshare wants them added even if they weren't there in the print
> > book, or if the new tools just number the pages automatically.
> >
> > --
> > Jamie in Michigan
> > Currently Reading: The Curse of the Holy Pail by Sue Ann Jaffarian
> > See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html
> >
> 
> 
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> Soronel Haetir
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