[bksvol-discuss] Re: book quality feedback
- From: "J.M." <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:18:33 -0500
Hi, Cindy. You try, and that's the important thing. I'm just so glad people
like you do what you do to help people who can't read printed books. You're
trying to help, so that's what matters. Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 9:24 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book quality feedback
Thanks for the explanation, Sarah. Again I show my
lack of understanding of the different problems
created by the various methods you all have to use to
read. I apologize to all.
Cindy
--- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
<curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In this case they did not mean not reading the
> entire book, but meant that
> they did not read with speech by hitting down arrow
> when the synthesizer
> finishes reading the current line. Some how a
> person's reflexes never get
> good enough to make this fast, and it is hard to
> anticipate the length of
> the line so you can hit down arrow without a pause.
> Besides, you still
> won't know if the line ending is window created or a
> genuine pain in the
> butt return where it doesn't belong. <g>
> It's not good for your wrists either. I feel sorry
> for sighted people who
> must force the scrolling of the screen while
> reading, but then again, I
> don't use the automatic scrolling of the display on
> my braille note when i
> read, because I don't read at a completely
> consistent speed.
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> curious entity at earthlink dot net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 1:57 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: book quality feedback
>
>
> > --Somebody recently mentioned not validating by
> > reading line-by-line because it takes so much
> time.
> > This is true, i.e., it does take a lot of time,
> and
> > I'm not saying everyone should do it -- people
> should
> > do whatever they feel comfortable doing -- but if
> I
> > weren't reading this book line by line I wouldn't
> know
> > that many sentences were bifurcated, with the
> other
> > half being somewhere further down the paragraph,
> nor
> > would I know that more than have the time what
> should
> > be "he" is written as "be." This was the problem
> with
> > the 5 books-in-one-volume The Dark Is Rising, and
> why
> > paying members, when they down-loaded, couldn't
> read
> > it.
> >
> > Again, I'm not criticizing anyone or suggesting
> that
> > anyone do anything differently -- different people
> > have different amounts of time to spend. I'm just
> > citing an advantage of reading the book while
> > validating it.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
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