Thank you ann, you have the history correct. I shall always strive to carry
on the work of Pat Price. I remember well when Bookshare published the first
harry Potterbook at the same time that the public received it. At 3 am PST.
Jim Fruckterman, the great CEO. Of Bookshare came into our computer room to
congratulate us for spending hours reviewing that book and others and also
following the progress made by Bookshare to get the book ready for us in a
timely way. They did it and we were there.
Bob Acosta
Robert Acosta, President
Helping Hands for the Blind
(818) 998-0044
www.helpinghands4theblind.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Parsons [mailto:akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 4:57 AM
To: klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Science Fiction Meeting, Thursday July 9,
2015, 9 pm EDT, Book Nook: www.accessibleworld.org
Hi all,
Bob Acosta runs Accessible World. Besides giving a place for an excellent
technology weekly program and other interesting audio programs having to do
with Old Time Radio, he has graciously opened up his server for several
monthly book discussion groups.
If I may be allowed to preempt your screen readers for a moment, I'd like to
acquaint you all with the history of these book discussion groups.
Back in the days of yore, some six to eight years ago, an enterprising woman
named Pat Price decided that there should be a Friends Of Bookshare group
online. It morphed from a discussion list to a group of people who wanted
to share their love of books with others. Pat put up a TC Conference server
at her home and started a couple of book discussions. One of the first of
these was The Mystery Book Discussion group, which I facilitate.
When Pat Died, her good Friend Bob Acosta took over the server and brought
the book discussion groups under the Accessible World banner.
This is a brief tale of what happened, and the details are not included.
However, the point to all this is that the book discussion groups started by
Pat Price are still going. You all receive the announcements about them
from Bob acosta. These book discussions are archived. You can go at any
time to listen or to download them at accessibleworld.org.
In case you all hadn't noticed, many people who are blind or visually
impaired are isolated by either location or by age or by inclination.
Being able to join a book discussion group that meets every month is a way
to meet others and to participate in sharing the love of books we all share.
Everyone is welcome at any of the book discussions. You don't have to
commit yourselves to coming every month, though we'd love to get more
regulars. Each book discussion group strives to discuss books which can be
found both on BARD and on Bookshare; hence the announcements here. There
are several book discussion groups: History, Fantasy, Worlds of Books,
Banquet of Books, Science Fiction, Novels Old And New, and mysteries. If
I've forgotten anyone just let me know.
Anyway, I, for one, am proud to be continuing the tradition started by Pat
Price. Mr. Acosta's announcements may seem to be annoying because of their
frequency, but if you remember the history of those book discussions, maybe
that will help to assuage your irritation. Besides, we all love books, and
we wouldn't be here if we didn't, right? So come on along, join a book
discussion. Meet people, discuss interesting books. You might even have
fun! Oooo, that's a scary thought isn't it?
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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