[vi-kindle] Re: Kindle users' group at ACB convention?
- From: Timothy Emmons <temmons9@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:00 -0500
Amen Nan!!! Amen, and what else can I say to that, sorry. i couldn't resist.
I've been slammed on twitter by a lot of folks mainly Nfb, for promoting the
Kindle and how can I as a librarian promote something that isn't completely
accessible for blind people and recommend books that are on there that no one
can get too. It's a sore subject, but I still stand behind it. Glad to know I'm
not the only one. Take care and talk to you soon.
On Jun 10, 2012, at 5:33 PM, (Nan Hawthorne <hawthorne%nanhawthorne.com>) wrote:
> Jane, I'm not so surprised. A couple years ago when I was involved in
> www.accessibleworld.org doing a historical novel discussion group I talked
> about the Kindle and basically got trashed. One woman in particular got
> really angry with me for, basically, selling out to a company that only
> pretended to access, namely Amazon. The people who were the maddest at me
> were NFB people partly because i got on their collective case for taking such
> an impractical approach to the Kindle... I feel strongly that we are better
> off acting like a market, consumers, than throwing tantrums in the press.
> Honey and vinegar and making ourselves mainstream and not in a ghetto.
>
> Nan Hawthorne, Historical Novelist
> www.nanhawthorne.com
>
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>
> On 6/10/2012 2:43 PM, JANE SHEEHAN wrote:
>> Hi again, This is the second of two things I wanted to bring up when
>> joining this list. I promise I'll usually not post this much!
>>
>> When I was filling out my registration form to attend the convention of the
>> American Council of the Blind this year in Louisville, I noticed that there
>> was a meeting for users of the Victor Reader Stream. I signed up for it,
>> because I used to use my Stream a lot for reading. Now that I have my
>> Kindle Keyboard, my Stream has been relegated to a drawer, probably to only
>> be used to listen to music. I truly feel guilty about that, but not enough
>> to stop using my lovely Kindle!
>>
>> But I didn't see anywhere a Kindle users' group at the ACB convention. Are
>> any of you going to Louisville? Could we start one there? Just a thought.
>>
>
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