There are certain newsletters and publications you can get via email. I get a lot of blindness publications that way, plus U.S. News and world report. There have been on rare occasion scanning errors in NLS books, smile. Very obvious ones. I don't remember the book, but one time I encountered ears for cars and baler for healer. Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com Dog ownership is like a rainbow. Puppies are the joy at one end. Old dogs are the treasure at the other. Carolyn Alexander ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:42 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: How Many NLS Members? (was) Re: Bad scan Wheel of Time 3 Hi. This is very interesting. What do you mean that you get magazines via email? Do you mean generally available mailing lists or something else? I know you can get some NLS magazines that way but they're for the public. You can have it send you email when a new issue is posted but there isn't an easy way to actually get the magazine. Also, what do you mean by errors in Web-Braille? With the older books, that's natural because they are scans but I've never found an error in the newer titles. Also, to give another example of why bookshare is better than NLS, Shelley just scanned and submitted the John Dunning book about vintage radio. It's literally an encyclopedia and is many hundreds of pages. NLS has it but only on cassette. It is three huge containers and I think 28 sides or more. It's impossible to find anything, the index itself takes up the first side. Maybe that's 28 cassettes, I'm not sure now. Anyway, it should be up on bookshare now in one big file. That is vastly easier to search than all those cassettes. Thanks to Shelley for scanning it! At 08:01 PM 2/18/2006, you wrote: >I get some magazines in my email, some on cassette, and books online, and >some through the mail. I love having the freedom of choosing what I want >to >read and if it isn't available, than I make it available. > >Web Braille is nice, but they also have errors, just not as many. Course >doing transcription, I can see why it takes months, and sometimes years for >books to become available. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.