I almost agreed with you that I wish Bookshare had been around when
I was in school. However, when I was in school I would not have
qualified even if it had been around. I was a completely sighted
student and I had to rely on libraries for sighted people. It is
interesting to note, though, that as a sighted student I did not
have access to any library as large as Bookshare. I am not sure what
was the nearest library to me that would have been comparable in
size to Bookshare and the few that were would have been only a few
in the world, but I am pretty confident that the Library of Congress
in Washington would have beat it, so that was probably the nearest
one. I did not have access to the Library of Congress though. I
wonder if the Carnegie Library comes close. Even if it does
Bookshare will not be long in making it look pretty puny as fast as
it is growing. I once read that the average public library has about
forty thousand volumes. If that is the case then Bookshare is now
about four times as large as the average public library. On 7/9/2012 11:28 PM, Dianne B. Phelps
wrote:
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