[bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloaded

  • From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:30:44 -0400

Well, in neither case are we talking about an objective perception. Even as subjective perceptions they are metaphorical perceptions because ebooks do not reside on a shelf anyway. My point in making my metaphor was not to describe my perception, per se. I was using it as most metaphors are used. That is, to clarify the actual point that is being expressed, or at least being tried to be expressed. Admittedly I did not make that point explicit. The point I was trying to clarify with my metaphor of bookshelvs was my perplexity at why anyone would download more books than he or she could possibly read and, especially, why 300 per month would not be enough for anyone. It is, of course, fine with me if others do that, but I am still perplexed. 



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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:01 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloaded
Hi, Sharon, I was one of those people who couldn't accumulate books because 
I didn't own them. If I finished them, they were sent away. What's
delightful for me is that I have a personal library or two near me. I think of the sites as stores or repositories of stuff where I can acquire stuff to take home, hence the VR Stream's cards, and those for my BrailleNote are my bookshelves with my books stored on them. I think the difference lies on our perceptions of what constitutes a "library" or "shelves". Roger, you see the sites as library shelves whereas I see them as storerooms. My shelves are on 
those cards stored in my devices. You were able to have books surrounding
you whereas I was not. What I have on my cards for me is the equivalent of
shelves of books. Regards, Kim. P.S.: I think what you say is absolutely
true and I'm not speaking against your ideas, I'm merely letting you know of 
how I perceive this. K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon [mailto:mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:52 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloaded
Perhaps It's because many of us grew up in an era when we had absolutely no 
books that belonged to us.
Any thoughts?
Sharon

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Loran Bailey [mailto:rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:57 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloaded


Back when I could see I tended to buy more books than I could read. When I
saw one I tended to think that if I passed it up I might never come across
it again. However, I just can't see downloading more books than I could ever 
possibly read. In the case of Bookshare, BARD and all the other on line
sites from which I can download books, they are always there. They are not
being taken away. I can use these sources as my own personal library and so I regard them as my own personal library. Downloading a book is like taking 
it down from the shelf of my personal library. Deleting it is like placing
it back on the shelf because when and if I need it again I can always take
it down, that is, download, it again. Taking more books off the shelf than I could possibly read would be bad housekeeping. It would be very messy. That 
is why I download a book when I am ready to read it and I am ready to read
it when I have finished the last one. Hoarding something that is freely
available wheneveryou want it does not quite make sense to me.


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"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial 
tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs


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----- Original Message -----
From: "traci" <season@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:42 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] books downloaded


Hi all
Wow! I am glad to discover that I am not the only one who downloads more
than I may ever read. When I joined bookshare over two years ago, it was
only a dream to be able to read books online since I had done the whole
ebook disaster. I can actually laugh now when I think of all the different
sites and programs I tried using to read Addicted by Zane. Never did read
that one online! But once I got the library to help prove my disability and 
I got everything straight, I downloaded Ramona by Helen Hunt. I read this
book when I was in Jr. High over a miserably cold and rainy Easter vacation 
and found the love story so great, so tragic, so rememberable that when I
was thinking of a title to look for, it popped into my head. Who could
forget Ramona and her Alessandro? The first book I read that I downloaded
was Guilty by Karen Robards. To this date, I just did a check and I
discovered I have downladed 156 titles. I even reread Little Women just
because I could and yes, I cried when Beth seccummed to scarlet fever.
Speaking of Scarlet! Hmm. Maybe its time I reread Gone With The Wind, my all 
time favorite classic!

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