Now, if I could only get a good scanner . . . I got windows 7 64 bit and find, to my chagrin, that it doesn't support my 1650 Epson scanner so . . .
I am out of the scanning loop. (for the time being.) At 08:36 PM 11/18/2011, you wrote:
Dear Sandi and Booksharian Friends, I'm thrilled for you. Most of us rarely have enough money for the hardware and software that would help us best. It's a juggling act figuring out where and how to spend the resources we have. Plugging the leak in the dike is a better analogy. In your case, Sandi, loving scanning as you do, buying K1000 should have you doing the happy adaptive equipment dance for years to come! K1000 smoothes the path for many of us, and since Bookshare, in my opinion, needs scanners most of all, your already fine work is going to take a quantum leap forward and Bookshare really needs you. You will be a big part of making many proof readers and many more Bookshare readers very happy. I hope your family is braced to fend for themselves. You may get happily mired in scanning and plead, as I often do when I'm proofing, "Can we order out or have an easy dinner tonight? I want to make more headway on this book." Several volunteers are accomplishing great work with Open Book, but in your case there was some obstacles that we couldn't figure out. It's wonderful that all of that frustration is behind you! You were so determined and patiently did whatever patching up your scans needed. There will be challenges ahead which will materialize book by book, but you're better equipped to meet them now and the many k1000 users here are armed and ready with answers to your questions. Sandi has many interests but she's already contributed some historic fiction, romance, suspense and gothic fiction to the collection. If you like those genres check out, The Whispering Glenn, - Does the governess get the right guy? A Gathering of Ghosts - British mystery about saving an extremely old barn by a bureaucrat who puts himself in danger for a cause Parting Breath - British Mystery in the halls of academia with tons of scholarly references and An Air of Glory, - An English woman's difficult journey to Canada with displaced Scotts Regarding series, Mayrie completed a great series for tweens of over 40 books called Girl Talk. After two more books are proofed and pictures described, Shelley will have finished all of the books by Carolyn Haywood including the Betsey books, and the Little Eddie books. These books written in the 1940s, 50s and 60s are charming nostalgic, funny, good reads for children. Evan and I completed the Bad News Ballet series by adding eight books to the two Mayrie already had in the collection. It's set in Ohio, so how could I not love it. Besides, it's very funny, emphasizes friendship, and is about girls who take ballet to spend time together, not because they are perfect little dancers. I'm not good with names so this list is woefully incomplete, but We've had a great influx of new talent here lately, with Lena, Sandi, Amanda, Tim, Vivian and others. I've also noticed that Some of us who have been around for a while are sustaining our enthusiasm. From my in box the Bookshare Volunteers are looking splendid! Always with love, Lissi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 7:27 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Success Coming Up!Thanks, Evan. I'm going to write personally to Lissi this evening. I have already almost completed scanning one of the books she and I talked about with Kurzweil--and it's so nearly perfect I'm kicking myself for wasting time! Looking forward to continued working with you guys! *smile* Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:54 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Success Coming Up!Congratulations, Sandi! No software is perfect, but I think K1000 is fabulous. I'm glad to hear you're liking it. It is truly an excellent product. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:43 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Success Coming Up!Hi Mary and All, Since I've written you with the negative issues surrounding my scanning (even though I continue to love it anyway), things are about to get better! Yesterday I received, and this afternoon I installed Version 12.04 of Kurzweil 1000! I have already successfully scanned two pages with it. I like its voices, its settings opportunities, and its interface better than OpenBook! Thanks to all of you for your attempts to help me identify the issue with OpenBook. Hopefully changing software will help, and I will continue merrily to scan--maybe even faster! *smile* Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:13 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Shame LiftersHi Sister Dolores, I don't know if you use any assistive technology or not. Here are a couple of things that you can try, depending upon how you do things. First, you can try beginning to reply to a message that Debby has sent to the volunteer list. If you're fortunate, as soon as you open a reply, you should see immediately below your blank message, the headers from Debby's original e-mail which will, hopefully, include her original address. From there you can find her e-mail address and copy it to paste into the "to" field of a new blank message. If you happen to be using JAWS and Outlook, open a message from Debby to the list, and then pressing shift plus insert plus r will give you a message from JAWS that you are replying directly to the sender of the message. Hope one of those things helps you! Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dolores Dean Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:02 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Shame Lifters How do I get Debbie's offline address? You are all so great. I never in a million years thought my book would be such a good learning experience. Thanks so much. Sister Dolores -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. 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