Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:21:27 -0800
Brandon,
You missed a message earlier that dealt with Openbook the result was to give
the address to sign up for the Openbook forum, which is a much better place to
go for your fairly off-topic questions on Openbook and the Pearl. Here it is:
openbook-users-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording
and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Keith
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:55
Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
I have a couple more questions,
Can Open Book scan textbooks for Beginning French, where it's English and
French both on a page?
Also, is there any easy way to find what page you messed up really fast?
Because if I'm scanning 10+ pages a minute I'll not be able to read them that
fast. How do you tell if that page needs to be re-scanned or not in that short
of time?
Also how does Open-book handle Highlighted text or hand-writing? If I get a
book that has a few markings in the margins, how does Open-Book handle that?
Thank you,
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From: Brandon Keith
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:26 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
Wow, does the pearl adjust for different page sizes very well?
And do you need to take off the bindings?
Also when flipping larger books over how easy is it to align the book so that
the picture isn't cut-off?
And how fast does the motion sensor go? can you slow it down with bigger
books and speed it up with smaller books?
And how fast is the delay between the picture being taken from when you press
the button on the computer?
Sorry for so many questions, but if I'm able to scan my textbook with minimal
errors in under an hour that beats even using one of those industrial
scanners...
Also it takes about an hour altogether to find the publisher's information,
email them and then waiting for a response from the publisher takes anywhere
from 3 hours to a week+. After that you probably need to re-explain to them
that no, Kindle is not accessible and no their E-Text reader is not accessible.
After that point it's usually a 75% chance you won't get the book...
If I'm able to buy the book for dirt cheep off of Amazon then scan it and not
throw it away afterwards because it doesn't have a binding anymore, it would be
pretty awesome!
Thanks,
Brandon Keith
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From: Yadiel Sotomayor
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:39 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
with a scanner and the latest version of openbook (9), around 2 to 3 hours.
With openbook 8 and below, it took me 3 hours just to scan the book and another
hour to process the book. With the pearl now, you know what? I yet haven't scan
that much paper. But from what I have worked with the machine I would guess an
hour tops (maybe a little more if I need to re-scan some pages). But to be
honest, I don't find the job anoying. In fact, I kind of like it. One thing I
like of using the pearl is that if it is a novel I am scanning I love to start
readding almost imediately.
Yadiel
From: Brandon Keith
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:35 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
How long does it usually take you to scan a 300 page book?
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From: Yadiel Sotomayor
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:40 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
I found that is you scan the book by yourself you can either put bookmarks
for later use while you are scanning or you can scan the book in separate
files. That makes the whole process a lot easier. I have no problem scanning te
book by myself specially since the pearl camera tripples my speed.
Yadiel
From: Tim
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:11 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
Hi Brandon,
Looking for textbooks in an available format for me to read is nothing new.
Many times publishers will send a textbook as a Word document or PDF file if
you or the instructor contacts them. That is one strategy I have been using
lately. I am sure you are aware of RFB and D. They have a large audio textbook
library. Unfortunately, it is not a perfect solution but they will often have
the book you are looking for. Other than that it is back to the wonderful
process of scanning page after page or paying someone else to do it.
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Keith
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: where to find accessible textbooks for college in networking
If you are a student than your disability center needs to get the text
books by either filling out the publisher's special form or by contacting them
directly.
If you want to buy the book then contact them directly and ask to buy an
accessible format of the book.
I don't believe there are any accessible E-Text books and the Kindle is
inaccessible, so you'll either have to weasel out a PDF, .doc, html or rtf
version of the book, or have the publisher join a book-sharing sight like
Bookshare.org then get the book off of there.
please if anyone else has another way can you share?
This is a really ineffective way of getting books and I don't have time to
scan my own...
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From: paul faucheux
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:25 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: where to find accessible textbooks for colledge in networking
hi this ispaul faucheux. I am wondering where to find accessibleversions
oftextbooks published by course technologies. more specifically what e book
formats work best with jfw. also what companies produce accessible training
materials for microsoft activedirectory courses. if any onecan help can they
either call me at 225-209-5635 or write meoff list at pf112781@xxxxxxxxx
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