[bksvol-discuss] Re: book quality feedback
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:21:02 -0500
In this case they did not mean not reading the entire book, but meant that
they did not read with speech by hitting down arrow when the synthesizer
finishes reading the current line. Some how a person's reflexes never get
good enough to make this fast, and it is hard to anticipate the length of
the line so you can hit down arrow without a pause. Besides, you still
won't know if the line ending is window created or a genuine pain in the
butt return where it doesn't belong. <g>
It's not good for your wrists either. I feel sorry for sighted people who
must force the scrolling of the screen while reading, but then again, I
don't use the automatic scrolling of the display on my braille note when i
read, because I don't read at a completely consistent speed.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 1:57 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book quality feedback
> --Somebody recently mentioned not validating by
> reading line-by-line because it takes so much time.
> This is true, i.e., it does take a lot of time, and
> I'm not saying everyone should do it -- people should
> do whatever they feel comfortable doing -- but if I
> weren't reading this book line by line I wouldn't know
> that many sentences were bifurcated, with the other
> half being somewhere further down the paragraph, nor
> would I know that more than have the time what should
> be "he" is written as "be." This was the problem with
> the 5 books-in-one-volume The Dark Is Rising, and why
> paying members, when they down-loaded, couldn't read
> it.
>
> Again, I'm not criticizing anyone or suggesting that
> anyone do anything differently -- different people
> have different amounts of time to spend. I'm just
> citing an advantage of reading the book while
> validating it.
>
> Cindy
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