amen. I looked for Kipling and there was only one volume very well recorded
but when I wanted to hear it again It had disappeared. I got rfb to record
what turned out to be the complete kipling but then had to deal with people
reading poetry with no real knowledge of how to do it and with difficulty
pronouncing some of the Names and names of places - understandable if you
are not familiar with India or 19th Century British army terminology. Though
even today I would guess it would not be hard to find kids who have read the
poetry in The Jungle Books or the Just So Stories or their parents, too. I
appreciate the work rfb volunteers went through to record that tome but I
wanted the poems as he wrote them so I scanned the book with Kurzweil and am
now trying to make sure the poems scan properly (scan as in lines as K wrote
them of the length he wanted them). I may have to submith the Kurzweil
copy which scan (copied) the pages correctly but they don't always come out
that way and I was warned that theBookshare computer would ignore the lines
much as they did in other books of poetry I have gotten but I can only try
to get someone to realize the importanct of the lines. However, I have hopes
even If I cannot do it. In any event it has to be better, even with a
computer voice, that what I heard. in the well meant recording.
Amy omst
Someone, I believe it was on here was wondering why we should work on books
already recorded on cassette by NLS.
I have a story to tell and how to illustrate a good advantage for doing just
that.
I borrowed from my local cooperating branch a copy of
Rilla of Ingleside.
It arrived her the other day and I popped it into the player, have been wanteding to read this and had Just finished Rainbow valley.
Well... the tape was old, and warped, and no matter all the "usual" tricks,
I couldn't get the tape to play properly.
So... after being disgusted by it, putting it back into its little green box, slapping the string on the latch and thinking I would call them today about it, I had a brainstorm.
I got online, found Rilla of Ingleside in the Bookshare collection and grabbed it, popped it into the book courier and all was well again.
I do like listening to human readers though some of them are quite grating on me, but I still like the flexibility of choosing what format works best for me.
Smile.
This isn't the first time this has happened, but... it was the most recent.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com
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