[vi-kindle] Re: Longing for a Kindle but wondering ...
- From: Kimber Gardner <kimbersinbox1963@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:47:38 -0400
Wow, you must have been over the moon when you discovered all those
resources right at your fingertips. I hope you'll let me know when the
book is available. I'd like to read it.
Yes, the world of research can be incredibly frustrating for a blind
writer. It's the main factor that keeps me from attempting a book set
in historical times. But with a kindle ...
I really think I am going to end up getting one before much longer.
K
On 6/8/12, Nan Hawthorne <hawthorne%nanhawthorne.com>
<hawthorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then as a novelist, you will appreciate this. I am just putting the
> finishing touches on a novel set in New Orleans just before and during
> the Civil War. When I went on Kindle Store to see what they had I
> almost fell off my chair. They not only had books, they had all these
> documents and short pieces about the day the Union Navy captured new
> Orleans! Eyewitness accounts, the actual report that the commander made
> about the capture, details I don't think I could have known existed ...
> and since that time I have found more and more. All I can guess is that
> Amazon was putting everything from open Library they could on the
> Kindle. Some of these were free, some were just a couple dollars.
>
> The thing is, not only did I have access to these incredible resources,
> I was able, independently, to discover they existed. You're blind, you
> know what a big impenetrable forest the world of knowledge can be when
> you can't peruse a shelf of books or a scholarly magazine .. or at the
> very least, scan down a bibliography. The pages, the spines of the
> books, may as well be blank.
>
> I actually intend to mention Amazon Kindle in the acknowledgments in the
> book. I used to be a huge fan of the Kindle, back when all those people
> not only scoffed at it but reviled it. now I think I would just haul
> off and punch them in the nose.
>
> I wish someone from kindle was on this group so they could hear a blind
> person signing its praises and not just grumbling all or nothing.
>
> Nan
>
> Nan Hawthorne, Historical Novelist
> www.nanhawthorne.com
>
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>
> "If we are to become friends I must laugh the way I really do."
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>
> On 6/8/2012 10:20 AM, Kimber Gardner wrote:
>> I think you may have pushed me over the edge with your endorsement. Lol!
>>
>> Seriously though, the idea that I could have so many books at my
>> fingertips is mind boggling. I can't wait to hear Jane's program on
>> the 11th. I suspect that will be the knockout punch.
>>
>> I'm a novelist too btw, and the thought of so many research books
>> becoming available makes me drool.
>>
>> As for the set up, my husband is sighted and will be able to assist
>> with that. I would love a totally accessible Kindle, but I'm very
>> willing to work with what's available.
>>
>> Thanks so much for the info!
>>
>> Kimber
>
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