RE: Scanner/Stuff...
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:59:22 -0400
Not all publishers are willing to do this.
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 1:35 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Scanner/Stuff...
But I thought the publishers give the necessary permissions for doing the
same thing...
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 6:14 PM
Subject: RE: Scanner/Stuff...
> The publisher can send the content of a book to whomever they choose,
> inside
> our outside the US. People like us, not in the publishing biz, are
> restricted by all sorts of copyright laws in the US and around the world
> which complicates the issue terribly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian
> Rasnita
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:38 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Scanner/Stuff...
>
> I have never read a book from bookshare.org because I think that it costs
> money, while very many good books can be found for free.
> But, before bookshare started to give O'Reilly books, O'Reilly had a free
> service for the blind, and I received books from them.
>
> They created an FTP account where I could download the books I wanted, and
> before creating me that FPT account, I needed to send them a scanned paper
> that proves that I am a blind.
> They accepted my paper, even if I live in Romania, Europe, not USA.
> They told me that it is not a problem that I live in Romania, because they
> also had some romanian employees, and I think they use to accept those
> papers no matter the country.
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 2:36 PM
> Subject: Scanner/Stuff...
>
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> My parents are in town so I'm fairly distracted from vocational and other
>> programming related tasks. I did, however, manage to find a scanner with
>> a
>> document feeder (they used to call these sheet feeders, were consumers
>> stupid enough to think they had something to do with bedding or is using
>> the
>> more sophisticated term a way to hit me up for an additional $25 or so by
>> making me think it's a device far more interesting than something that
>> simply scans sheets of paper - which, in fact, is what I want it to do).
>>
>> I bought a new Canon from the low end of their "professional" line which
>> wasn't terribly expensive and only slightly slower than the one that died
>> on
>> us last week. It is expected to arrive by UPS mule by Thursday so Sue
>> can
>> start the Drupal scanning project on Friday while I'm having a tattoo put
>> onto my left forearm. Assuming we don't get bogged down in a lot of
>> paper
>> jams and other scanning hell, we should have the book done by sometime on
>> Saturday.
>>
>> This brings me to a minor conundrum - currently Bookshare.org is my most
>> profitable client (the amount I earn from my different projects varies on
>> a
>> monthly basis depending upon how much attention I can devote to a gig and
>> the project's level of urgency). I want, therefore, to promote BSO
>> subscriptions to help defray the cost of the work they pay me to perform
>> and
>> to help keep the non-profit running smoothly as possible.
>>
>> At the same time, I don't want to exclude our friends outside the US from
>> having access to this and other books on programming and technology that
>> we
>> process. Also, any web site that posts the book without the protections
>> afforded by BSO, NLS and the others runs into a possible copyright
>> problem
>> with the publisher as, although we claim it is intended for blind people
>> only, we have no way of protecting the content to ensure that proof of a
>> print disability has been proffered before we share the book.
>>
>> I'm open to all sorts of ideas, please make suggestions.
>>
>> Yesterday, I spent an additional $250 on a birthday gift for my twin
>> niece
>> and nephew. I got them the Lego robotics starter kit which includes a
>> ton
>> of really neat features (you can read about it at lego.com), there are at
>> least a half dozen books on Amazon describing projects one can make with
>> the
>> set, loads of add on parts, the ability to write code on a PC and
>> download
>> it to your bot and so many other very cool features that I could write
>> for
>> hours.
>>
>> The kids were first introduced to these Legos as part of their charter
>> school program that brought them to MIT for two hours per week, one hour
>> on
>> robotics using the kit I got for them and the other on crypt-analysis and
>> code breaking. Where were such programs when I was eleven years old?
>>
>> On a more topic based question, though, if I recall from my own
>> childhood,
>> Lego bricks and other pieces were highly tactile - does anyone know of
>> blind
>> kids using this kit to make their own robots? Does anyone know of any
>> trials with children with vision impairment and such a kit? I'm curious
>> to
>> learn if it could be fit into a middle school course for budding blind
>> hackers.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> cdh
>>
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