[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:03:29 -0700 (PDT)
Most have text as well as illustrations.I think either parents read them to
blind children or perhaps sightee chldren read them to blind parents so they
can share book time. I try to describe them in some detail, and let the
imaginations take over. It's not easy, and I'm very grateful that since I
started volunteering at bookshare many more sighted volunteers have joined us,
including some who not only are willing to do descriptions but are much, much
better at doing them than I am.
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 10:20 AM
This might seem like a silly question, but how do such books actually
help anything by being part of the bookshare collection?
I assume you are talking about books like Where the Wild Things Are.
Such books are so dependant on the pictures that I'm really not sure
what a blind person would do with them, no matter how well the
pictures are described.
Am I just missing something here?
On 8/1/09, Jamie Yates, CPhT <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Most children's picture books, even today, do not have page numbers. I know
> Bookshare's new policy is that books have to have page numbers, but I don't
> know if Bookshare wants them added even if they weren't there in the print
> book, or if the new tools just number the pages automatically.
>
> --
> Jamie in Michigan
> Currently Reading: The Curse of the Holy Pail by Sue Ann Jaffarian
> See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html
>
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