[bookshare-discuss] Re: Requesting some Help with the List
- From: "J.M." <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:35:47 -0700
Hi, Brenda. Of course, blind people can scan, too, and most of us here who
do scan are blind, or at least visually impaired...or at least most of us
here on the list, anyway. As for the newspapers, you don't type in the title
anywhere. You click on the link for newspapers, then there are combo boxes
where you choose which papers you want. Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brenda Mueller" <brendin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Requesting some Help with the List
With all due respect, those scanners work hard. I don't mind finding out
how much effort it took to get my book ready to read. I'm not sure what
this list did before, I'm just a newby. Who knows? Maybe I'll learn enough
to put some books up there, too. Blind people can scan, too. Just a
thought.
Hey is this question appropriate for this list? I want to read the New York
Times and other newspapers from Bookshare. I got the New York Times once,
but can't seem to do it now. Could someone with a Braille Note or Voice
Note explain what you do to get the papers and such. I'm always stuck at
this place where you type in the title for what you want. I typed in "New
York Times," and the system threw me back to books that contained those
words, but no New York Times. What am I doing wrong? It may be my fault.
Why can't I just get a list of titles of Newspapers and such and just return
to go to that paper?
Brenda Mueller
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Scialli" <Peter.s@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:19:09 -0400
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Requesting some Help with the List
> Hey folks,
> There seems to be a mass exodus from the General Discussion list
> lately.
>I think this is because there has been a fair amount of chatter on subjects
>that might be better served on the Volunteer list. Topics such as
>scanning,
>OCR, book processing, that sort of thing may be of relatively little
>interest to most of the people who've signed up for the General Discussion.
>We'd rather see the discussion list used for topics such as using the site,
>third party applications and devices, content, wish list, etc. I think it
>would really smooth things out if you avid book scanners keep the technical
>stuff over with the rest of the volunteers. Thanks.
>________________________
>Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
>Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org
>www.bookshare.org
>A Project of The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
>peter @benetech.org
>www.benetech.org
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