[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Success Coming Up!

  • From: Curtis Delzer <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:41:20 -0600

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 Lifters


Hi 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

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