[bksvol-discuss] Welcome, Estel...

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT)

First, welcome.  Second, I apologize for shortening
your name, and henceforth I'll use the whole name if
you prefer; it is very pretty, but  long (smile).

People on this list are very willing to help and to
answer any question you ask. I am unable to answer
your questions about the scanner, Open Book and
Juliet, but someone will soon --also the question
about how to read the downloaded books.

Are you registered as a volunteer as well as a member?
If so, you can validate, which means proofread, books
as well as, or instead of, scanning them. If you want
to do that and are not yet a volunteer, then the first
thing you have to do is to apply to be a volunteer
(simple process, but it sometimes takes a while to be
approved). When you've downloaded a book and proofread
and corrected it and uploaded it to the collection,
you get to keep your corrected file and also earn 50
cents toward your annual membership. (You get $2.50
credit for scanning a book).

Cindy


-- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Sara and Book Sharers,
> 
> My name is Estelnalissi which means Hope Is Sweet in
> Tolkien's Elvish and I'm new to book share and this
> list. 
> 
> I  subscribed yesterday. Usually I lurk longer to
> learn how and what to contribute but Sarah mentioned
> Star Trek books in passing in her discussion of
> referencing books, and I have a box of Star Trek
> hardbacks from a friend with a bookstore on Amazon. 
> 
> She'll sell me any book for fifty cents each. I'd
> gladly send any of these books free to anyone on
> this list for scanning and then keeping or passing
> on.
> 
> I don't know how this is done. If anyone might be
> interested I could post a list of them to this list
> or off list. Please let me know because I need to
> give them back to her if no one is looking for them
> at this time.
> 
> About me! I'm a retired elementary teacher who has
> read braille since first grade. I'm looking forward
> to volunteering for Book Share, but I'm not a quick
> study with computers. I have a fairly powerful Dell,
> read the screen with jaws, have a new HP all in one
> printer - scanner, Open Book a Braille Note, and a
> Juliet 2 sided braille printer. I'm still clueless
> about how to use the scanner, Open Book and the
> Juliet. 
> 
> If I could only ask you one question it would be, is
> it possible to download books from book share so
> that they can be read in refreshable braille or
> voice on the braille note?
> 
> Also, if anyone on the list has the time or patience
> to teach me anything to help me become a productive
> volunteer I'd appreciate it. I write down any
> instructions I get in a braille notebook and save
> the post in a computer tips file.
> 
> I'm an insatiable reader and with this huge new
> reading resource I don't know where to start! The
> first Book Share  book I'm reading is Playing With
> Fire, an Inspector Banks mystery. Some of my
> favorite authors are Charles Dickens, Dick Francis,
> Sue Grafton, and John Grisham. I enjoy reading
> mysteries, suspense, classics, current general
> fiction, humor, cookbooks, knitting patterns, and
> poetry. I have a special interest in almost any
> historic, cultural or fiction book about Ireland,
> Scotland and Wales and have a large collection of
> them. 
> 
> I've always loved just being in the pressence of
> books. I have a large print library I can't see to
> read, but bought the books with the vague hope that
> some day I'd be able to read them. Now their time
> has come. Once I learn to scan I can not only read
> them, but share them. 
> 
> That's more than enough for starters. I feel
> fortunate to be in the company of other book lovers.
> 
> 
> Always Turning Pages,
> 
> Estelnalissi 
>   

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