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 > > > > > -- > Soronel Haetir > soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 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. > -- AAnn K. Parsons Portal Tutoring Email: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web Site: http://www.portaltutoring.info blog: http://www.samobile.net/users/akp Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.