[bookshare-discuss] Re: P.S.--Wishlist Requests
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for that info, Cindy. I was remembering, or
mis-remembering--smile-- that earlier someone said
books should be in both places because there were
people served by bookshare that are not served by NLS.
Are people with reading problems like dyslexia also
served by NLS? Maybe that's what I was thinking of.
Cindy
--- Cindy Ray <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, NLS also serves the physically handicapped, so
> I think the
> people who qualify for Bookshare also will qualify
> for NLS. After all,
> one of the ways we have to prove we are eligible is
> to get a statement
> from them if we are one of their patrons. I think
> Linda makes a good
> points.
>
> Cindy Lou
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:01 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: P.S.--Wishlist
> Requests
>
>
> No, because there are members of bookshare with
> problems other than blindness who qualify, and also
> some blind people who don't read braille.
>
> I suspect that as the population gets older there
> will
> be more elders with macular degeneration, but
> hopefully with new medical advances it will be
> caught
> in early enough stages that the degeneration can be
> halted or delayed. Whether the elders will be
> willing
> to learn to use the technology that makes reading
> books from bookshare possible is another question.
> The
> one person I know won't even use the machine that
> the
> Organization for the Blind lent her, and I think she
> stopped going to the center after my dad passed away
> and no longer could go with her. But she's in her
> late
> 90s. Maybe the younger generation of elders will be
> more willing to use new technology.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> Cindy
> --- Linda Adams <ladams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Cindy. I think that we still have to be sure
> > that the titles are not in
> > the NLS National Library Service) web braille
> > collection, also.
> >
> > Linda ?Adams
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:38 PM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] P.S.--Wishlist
> Requests
> >
> >
> > > P.S. Thus I'm not putting in All books by
> Francis
> > > Schaeffer and I'm deleting the Anything by Liz
> > > Williams, or Colin Harrison that's not already
> in
> > the
> > > collection or in process; and
> > > books by Fiona Buckley about Ursula Blanchard at
> > Queen
> > > Elizabeth's Court;
> > >
> > > Please send me or post here specific titles by
> the
> > > authors, no matter how many you want. Be sure
> they
> > are
> > > not already in the collection or in process.
> > smile
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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