[bookshare-discuss] Re: SEPARATE PAGES FOR BOOKS IN ENGLISH, BOOKS IN SPANISH, AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:10:38 -0700 (PDT)

If you go to Jake's site and bookmark it, you can
easily access books added in English each day without
looking at the Spanish. 

Perhaps you wrote this before reading Janice's
explanation about the grant that provided for the
books and for memberships to be given free to
Spanish-speakers who qualify. Unfortunately, no one
has given a grant to provide books for
English-language readers.

Remember, too, that many Spanish-speaking children are
learning English in school but also need to read in
their own language while they're doing it. 

Cindy

--- kath lueders <kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi BookShare Listers,
> 
> I am annoyed at the percentage of books in Spanish
> added to our
> collection verses those books in English added.
> I am sorry, but I truly believe that when someone
> from another country
> chooses to live in America, then that person needs
> to learn the
> English language.  I always thought that was the
> native language of
> the U.S.A.
> After all, as a person who is blind, I have had to
> learn to type, at a
> very early age, because the world around me was a
> print world.
> Further, if I wanted to complete my studies, and a
> book was not
> available in Braille or recorded form, I had to hire
> a reader; or scan
> it into my computer.
> If I want to access printed food labels, I need to
> bring along a
> person who is sighted, or I need to buy a bar-code
> scanner.
> I just do not understand why I have joined BookShare
> for fifty dollars
> per year when the majority of books added on Monday
> were not in
> English.
> Further, my time is valuable.  Why do I need to
> arrow down through all
> these Spanish titles or titles for children!
> Might I suggest: let's have three sections of newly
> added books: one
> for books in English, another for Books in Spanish,
> and a third for
> books primarily read by children.
> 
> K. G. Lueders
> kageylucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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