[bookshare-discuss] Re: Shannon's Reads
- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:37:56 -0700
Reel-to-reel tapes, I remember them, used them when I was in college. Fell
asleep often, but oddly enough, generally when I rewound a tape to catch
what I missed apparently I heard it in my sleep, and occasionally I also
found myself as one of the characters in a literature book or something.
I'd be hearing the reading but it was like I was there being the person,
living through the experience. I still do that when listening to a book if
I fall asleep,. Then there are those time when I dream I take the cassette
out, or turn off the switch and the books keep playing, no matter where I
am, no matter where I go, even if I leave the house in the dream, the reader
just keeps with me--OK so my dreams are weird.
Rose Combs
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-----Original Message-----
From: rita weyler [mailto:ritaweyler@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:32 PM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Shannon's Reads
Oh my, those reel to reel tapes were a nightmare. I started college in
1971; rfb&d was still using them. One day a tape went spinning across the
floor; my roommate got it all wound up and it wasn't twisted. I don't know
how she did it. These new technologies almost put me in awe; that is true
especially when it comes to books. If I remember correctly nls didn't start
producing books on cassette until around 1970 and I remember receiving a
notice saying that nls would start producing their cassette books on 4 trak
in 1975.
Rita
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:11 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Shannon's Reads
> Rita,
>
> At least, with braille, you can usually get to where you left off. I
> remember those reel-to-reel tapes, and even the cassettes in relation to
> this.
>
> When I was in college, I would often turn on a textbook and fall asleep.
> In the meantime, that tape would go on its merry way to the end. Then, I
> would have to rewind and try to figure out the last thing I heard.
>
> Whatever you do, Rita, don't let that BrailleNote fall to the floor while
> you are falling asleep. <grin>
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