[bksvol-discuss] Re: cheap books
- From: "Dornetta" <dornetta@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:06:04 -0400
Roger,
I thank you for your insight. There are a few books in a teenagers series
that my daughter's friend is interested in and I think that it is a very
good Christian series-teaching virtues, values, and moral-the female
character have to face life consequences and apply strength, trust,
meekness, etc... to her situation. I just recently came across this series
and downloaded a few titles from Audible and read and have fallen in love!
As far as amazon, I tried it a few years back (when I wasn't as well-versed
with JAWS commands) and got stuck and sometimes the amount of information on
the site can be overwhelming to me *smile*. Again, thanks
Netta
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most
frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing usmall does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are
all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory
of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And
as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission
to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others."-Mariann Williamson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:17 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: cheap books
I don't have much problem navigating Amazon myself and I use JAWS. They
have an access site, but I think the regular site is accessible enough
and the access site doesn't have all the information that the regular
site does. It might help you to use your H and number row keys to
navigate quickly to headings. For example, when I got to the page for a
certain book and I want to look at product details like the ISBN or
number of pages the first thing I do when the page opens is to press the
1 key. That takes me to the title and author of the book. I then press
the 2 key to skip from heading level 2 until I reach the the product
details section. Anyway, another place to get cheap books is eBay. I
think you can actually get them the very cheapest there. However, to get
books for only a few pennies you have to buy a lot and you have to buy
them all at once. I am talking about the wholesale lots category under
the books category. The drawback is that you may have to spend a lot of
money all at once even though the per book price is very cheap. In the
off line world there are Goodwill stores. The last time I checked them
out they were selling used books in my area for a quarter apiece. Then
there are the FOL sales. That is, Friends of Libraries which have fund
raising sales of books. Oftentimes they will have a weekend sale and the
books will be quite cheap anyway, but on the last day of the sale they
will do what amounts to a clearance sale. That is, they will give
everyone who comes in a bag and you go in and fill the bag with books.
You then might be charged a dollar for each full bag. The real problem
with buying bulk lots, though, is getting a lot of books that are
already in the Bookshare collection and at a FOL sale you might have a
hard time picking and choosing if you are blind. Nevertheless, you might
want to consider some of these ideas and try to think of ways that you
can adapt them to your own situation, By the way, if you do figure out a
way to adapt the suggestions to your own situation you might post your
ideas here and it might help others in acquiring books.
On 6/7/2012 11:33 PM, Dornetta wrote:
> Hey guys,
> Since I been on the list some of yall have listed several venues to get
> "cheap books". I have listed the ones that I can recall off hand below:
> Thrift Books
> Paperback Swap
> and the lates Book Mooch
> Are there any others. I am NOT a user of Amazon since I find navigating
> that
> website extremely difficult with JAWS at times but am open to any
> suggestions on navigating the site. Any and all info concerning "cheap
> books" and Amazon are welcomed.
> Thanks,
> Netta
> "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
> we
> are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most
> frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
> talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of
> God.
> Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened
> about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We
> are
> all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the
> glory
> of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
> And
> as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
> permission
> to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
> automatically liberates others."-Mariann Williamson
>
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