Hi. I at the moment have a very old reading edge which can't really handle reading my mail anymore never mind a book or magazine, so, I am thinking of parting with it, and of adding on my list of things to get not right awauy, but at some point a new scanner and software and fine reader was mentioned on a bookshare list quite a while back and I was wondering if anyone uses it and how people feel about it, how easily it works with jaws. From what I can gather it is only $149, and if I remember correctly, scanners are 1 or 200 dollars or maybe less now it has been a very long time since I've looked, but couldn't believe the price on thisg it sure beats 1500 or something and wanted people's thoughts on it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Natalia Sulca" <youngbeautyqueen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:51 PMSubject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
I absolutely agree. I just ordered a bunch of JudeDeveraux books whom I love, and nearly all of them are read by her! I guess I'll chipmunk! Ugg! Sometimes when I want to read a book, just by looking at the narrator’s name I reframe from ordering it. I think that it’s not right that if they own those masters they make rerecordings.
Nati
From: tinabir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .)Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:35:29 -0700 I feel like that about Mitzi Freedlander's voice. Very bad! I would either speed the books up and chip munk them to get through them faster, or just read them another way and thankfully for me, she hasn't read anything they've sent me in quite a while. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:25 AMSubject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments onPublishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .)Hi all, Original message:I hate to bring up the thought, but if they were in old-time radio shows, it my be that Father Time had gotten rid of them, not NLS. smileActually, G. Cindy, one of the griefs which we who are old enough to remember is the loss of so many of these books that were recorded for the blind. We find it interesting, and indeed troubling, that one can collectall the OTR programs one would ever want to collect and yet, only a few ofthe old master recordings are available for duplication today. LOC claims lack of funding, and perhaps they are right. Some of us, indeed oneperson I know of in California has personally offered to reclaim these oldmaster recordings, but to my knowledge, he has not been given the time of day by the powers that be at Library of Congress. Oh, G. Cindy, when you can listen to The Shadow and Amos and Andy at any darn time you want, and yet, the complete set of Charles Dickens read by Alan Haines is thrown on the garbage heap because it is too costly to reclaim it, this makes me actually weep in frustration! Alan Haines, a radio personality and actor from New York City was Welsh. He could do *all* the regional accents of England, all of them, G. Cindy. His reading of How Green Was My Valley is a treasure, and if I find it *anywhere* at all, I want it, I want it so bad I can taste it! All those singing welsh voices with their wonderful accents. A treasure, a real treasure lost because some stupid sighted bureaucrat decided it wasn't worth keeping! I have here, my own personal recording of Haines reading The Dean's watch. I treasure it! I have Scourby reading Watership Down. NLS has seen fit to have The Robe, remember my mentioning it? They have seen fit to have some little bimbo with a tiny squeaky voice reading this book! It is *not* right! They miscast this reading! I am sure that this lady, whomever she is, is not a bimbo, but she sounds like one. Her voice is high and it is tiny and it is squeaky. Dale Carter might have done a good job with The Robe, but not this bimbo! I can just hear her giggling in the background. I had to send the book back to the library. I couldn't read it, just couldn't! Her reading is awful, just terrible, and they threw out the Blackwell or Donally reading that made that book *live*! Oh, it's not a trivial complaint, not a trivial complaint at all! I better stop now, or I'll fill up my whole computer with this rant. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring EMAIL: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.portaltutoring.info "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxPut the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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