[bksvol-discuss] Re: inquiry to braille users
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:48:49 -0400
My Pac Mate software is very out of date, but when I got it, Pocket Word had a
file size limit that was too small to load most books into it.
Evan
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From: Reggie & Brooks
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Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: inquiry to braille users
Monica: I gave up on PacMate Pocket Word. I use FSEdit, but as I said in my
previous post I have had to completely re-read at least 6 books because Pac
Mate has destroyed them. Is there a secret to using Pocket Word? Would it be
safer? I am so discouraged with Pac Mate that I am just chomping at the bit to
get a small netbook so I can have computer and Pac Mate braille display. I do
not have Kurzweil or Open Book so will pocket Word let me fix scanos? Sorry
for all the questions.
Frustrated and discouraged proofer who likes braille and wishes she could
afford Kurzweil to help
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:24 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: inquiry to braille users
Hi Nancy. Welcome to the list. It's great to meet you. (smile) You're asking
a good question, and I think you'll find that there are several ways of doing
things here. It's a matter of finding something that's right for you.
I use a Pac Mate to proofread, and it works well since it has Pocket Word on
it. I like the Pac Mate better than a Braille display because it's portable,
and I can take it into my living room and read while my daughter watches TV. I
can also proofread books from my porch swing when the weather is nice. (smile)
The Pac Mate can be used as a Braille display too, so it does double duty that
way. I like proofreading this way because I have both speech and Braille
available to me.
I use a slightly different procedure than many of our Braille users. I'm
grateful to Elizabeth and Mayrie for helping me learn to do this. I use my
computer and Kurzweil or Word to do a spell check and to use the find feature
to hunt for scannos that crop up in scans such as the word die for the. I'm
able to do these things faster using speech. Then I save my file and transfer
it to the Pac Mate to read the book, fixing scannos I find as I go. I get the
pleasure of reading books in Braille while still accessing the speed of my
computer for doing the heavy lifting part of spellchecking.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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