[vi-kindle] Re: Kindle users' group at ACB convention?
- From: "JANE SHEEHAN" <jcsheehan1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:12:35 -0400
Hi Nan,
I wasn't aware that there was this feeling inparts of the blindness
community about the Kindle. But I'm not surprised about the Federation,
they don't like much of anything unless they had a hand in it's development
or got money for participating in it, but that's just my opinion. I'll be
attending some meetings of Library Users of America at the ACB convention,
and I'll see what people's opinion of the Kindle is. I think it seems to be
growing on people a bit more now. Hope so.
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On Behalf Of Nan Hawthorne <hawthorne%nanhawthorne.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 6:34 PM
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Kindle users' group at ACB convention?
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
IndieBRAG Medallion Honoree for AN INVOLUNTARY KING: A TALE OF ANGLO SAXON
ENGLAND
http://www.bragmedallion.com/medallion-honorees/2012/an-involuntary-king-a-t
ale-of-anglo-saxon-england
"If we are to become friends I must laugh the way I really do."
Gabbo de la Parra
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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