[bksvol-discuss] Charts In Power To The People

  • From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Bookshare Volunteers <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:03:49 -0500

Hi, Lori. I don't have the print book, so I don't know how many charts are in it. I've been told that there are several, and that's what has me thinking that I'd do a bad job with scanning the book. I don't mind taking on difficult scans as long as I have some hope of doing a good job. That's why I wanted to get the library book instead of buying it. Buying a book and finding it unscannable is somehow worse than not having it at all. I know why sighted people use charts. It makes sense to me. As a blind person who scans, I despise them because I feel like I'm letting our readers down because I can't fix them. I have 3 books in my not submitted folder of books in Kurzweil because the books contain charts and graphs. I'm waiting on Christmas vacation to get some help from my daughter in typing in the data before I can submit them. You know, because of the perversity of life, it would be just the thing if Power To The People has no charts at all and my information is wrong. Sort of like buying a lottery ticket only to find that it expired last week and won't be entered into the drawing.


Monica Willyard

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