[bookshare-discuss] Re: More books than I know what to do with!
- From: "Natalie B." <lemina007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:21:04 -1000
Hello everyone,
What I like best about Bookshare and books in text format in general is the
easy access. Let me explain more since this probably doesn't make much
sense. This semester is the first semester I'm using books on Bookshare for
my classes. Not textbooks, but books like Anna Karenina, Much Ado About
Nothing, To Kill a Mocking Bird and others. For many of the books I read, I
have to write an essay and my teacher likes quotes from the book. With the
etext format, I can just search for a particular search string, copy and ten
paste. Voila, I'm done. With books on tape I have to sit there rewind and
rewind until I type everything that I want.
And of course, like others have said, it takes up so little space. I can
keep hundreds of books on a memory card or CD Rom disc and give away the
hard copies.
Whew. technology is a wonderful thing, wouldn't you say?
Peace,
Natalie B.
"God gran t me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
—Reinhold Niebuhr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Roderick" <richard@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:48 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: More books than I know what to do with!
Hi Lana,
There is another aspect to this. I am not denigrating either the braille
or
talking book libraries I use. Web-braille must also be given a lot of
credit.
However, one of the things I like about ebooks is that they don't have to
be
sent back. A lot of people have had difficulty getting books picked up at
various times.
Also, who could have ever dreamed that I could take hundreds of books with
me on a trip. If they were here in hardcopy, we would have very little
living space.
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