[bookport] Re: Web Braille -- Topic for Discussion
- From: Barbara <barbarab65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:50:30 -0700 (PDT)
I learned it from the NLS Librarian at the library in Sacramento. I told her
that I was going to read the files as text on Book Port and she said that she
didn't hear that. Also, it says on the Web-Braille sight that the files cannot
be converted into e-books and read as text. However, my Kurzweil program let me
download the .brf file as text without any problem.
Barbara
Dan Keys <dnkeys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
Hummmmmmmm!
Where did you get that. I've never read that in the what's aloud stuff.
Dan
On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Barbara wrote:
> I figured it out. I used my Kurzweil program as you suggested and
> was able to download a Web-Braille file. According to NLS, did you
> know that it is illegal for us to read the .brf files from Web-
> Braille as text files? How does the group justify this? I justify
> it by feeling that anyway that we can get books is okay and that we
> are not distributing them to other people. Is that how everyone
> else feels? I wish that NLS would change its policy about only
> reading .brf files in braille form so that I wouldn't feel like I
> am committing a crime when I read the .brf Web-Braille files in
> text form. This is a topic for discussion if anyone cares to
> discuss it. Again, thanks for your help. Now, I have access to one
> more available reading source. The wonders of modern technology
> (smile).
>
> Barbara
>
> Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
> Hi Barbara,
>
> the easiest thing to do is go to the NLS site
> www.loc.gov/nls
> and choose the quick Search. Search for a title and/or author, and
> put the words "web braille" without the quotes in the keyword box.
> Any results will include links to download the volumes. Before you
> can download, you have to enter your username and password, and
> each time you have to accept a pledge that you won't do anything
> dastardly with the files you download. If you're using a PC, be
> sure you choose the PC, not the notetaker button when you accept
> the pledge.
>
> If you happen to have Kurzweil 1000, you can use its online book
> search facility to find and download from Web-Braille. This has
> the advantage that book files are renamed to the book title, making
> it easier to find what you want. OpenBook used to work with Web-
> Braille, but I don't know whether it still does because the Web-
> Braille site changes often, and I don't know whether it's kept up
> with the changes.
>
> HTH,
> Anna
>
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