I am seeing quite a few books from NLS being redone, especially classics.
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From: "tina birenbaum" <tinabir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:47 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Running out of books to read?
I too remember those
days and I still use nls, but much anymore but i recently got 2 books recenarly and one looks like it'll be great do audio actually so I'm hanging on to them for whenever I finish the braille ones from bookshare
they are good still for some things but I do think they should redo some older ones for better quality
----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:29:05 -0500 Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Running out of books to read?
Hi, Lissi. Never! Not with Bookshare! <smile> I, too, love it. I was talking
to my husband about this exact thing, actually, yesterday, I think it was.
Every time I open a Bookshare file, I momentarily think about the days when
it was just NLS for me, and those days weren't that long ago, at least in my
case...only almost two years since I've been with Bookshare, and I haven't
looked back since! <smile> Growing up, in middle school, I had a college
reading level, and the books NLS sent me would drive me to distraction! I
don't mind a children's book every once in a while. It's nice, light reading
and I like that kind of thing sometimes, but I needed something more
challenging than that but didn't get it. Now, I have more than I'll ever
read, I know, but I love every minute of it. I love knowing whenever I'm in
the mood to read, I don't have to rely any more on a librarian in another
part of the state who has no idea of my reading abilities, likes and
dislikes. Take care.
Julie Morales
Children are fragile. Handle with prayer. --Unknown
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From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Offering books to scan
Dear Cindy,
Your thoughts on Falcon were interesting. Funny, for that one book you
recognized, you found two more you hadn't read, yet. hahahahah. I haven't
read the two DeMaurier books in the collection, either but also added them
to my list. It's frustrating, but I love it, too, that we aren't in danger
of running out of new books to read! All of these books available for me to
read make me feel so wealthy!
Always With Love,
Lissi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:59 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Offering books to scan
Side note--I read Flight of the Falcon some time ago and really enjoyed it. It's quite different from Rebecca, which I see isn't in the collection either. That's a classic. I haven't read either of the Du Maurier books that are in the collection, though I've heard of My Cousin Rachel. I'll have to add that, and The Parasites to my ever-growing list of books to read.
Cindy
-- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Volunteers,
I've just checked and as far as I can tell, none of the following books are in the collection.
If you are interested in scanning them, please contact me off list.
If you aren't sure of who will validate them, I'll enclose exact return postage and a pre addressed mailing label so you can mail the book back to me for validation. Then, if you want the print book back to keep, I'll gladly mail it back to you after it's been approved.
1. Deadly Climate by Richard Barth, mystery, large print hard back 308 pages, should be easy to scan. Barth writes kind of easy reading, light, mysteries. This one Margaret and 3 of her senior citizen friends take a van she's won to Florida to sell because she can't afford the sales tax. They discover many seniors live in dreary conditions. They attempt to start a luxury excursion business but encounter deadly doings at a nursing home.
2. 2. Friends for Life by Carol Smith, I think this is a mystery or suspense novel set in England. It's hard cover, large print and 708 pages long. In the little intro blurb a woman making preserves is struck twice by a brick and then her caldron of boiling fruit is poured over her.
3. Verdict Unsafe by Jill McGown - hard cover large print british mystery- 465 pages - Detective Inspector Judy Hill watches a wealthy man on trial for 4 rapes ...
4.The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier - hardbound large print, 553 pages, novel A tour guide taking an anglo American group from Genoa to Rome notices a vagrant asleep in a church doorway and the suspense begins. There is a different book with this title in the collection by a different author.
5. Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton, hardback regular print, 187 pages, science fiction - a colony of scientists isn't answering anxious attempts to contact them. copyright This may not be a good choice because I can't find a copyright. The book is a Doubleday Science fiction publication.
I'll save the information about any of these books which don't find scanners and put them on the list again in 6 months, when we might have new volunteers who might be interested.
Always With Love,
Lissi
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