What is the name of that series,or the author? That iis the kind of Christian fiction I don't mind proofing, and if someone wanted to scan such books I'd be willing to proof them (though I'm sure a lot of other people would, too and I should probably proof books no one else wants to do.Years ago when I was able to scan I submitted Cloudy Jewel by Grace Livingston Hill and I liked it a lot. I see there are 13 of her books in the collection and based on Cloudy Jewel, I heartily recommend them. They are enjoyable reads and subtly christian virtues (small C intended; this Jewish adult enjoyed doing the book. Cindy ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dornetta <dornetta@xxxxxxxxx> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: > Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 11:06 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: cheap books > > Roger, > I thank you for your insight. There are a few books in a teenagers series > that my daughter's friend is interested in and I think that it is a very > good Christian series-teaching virtues, values, and moral-the female > character have to face life consequences and apply strength, trust, > meekness, etc... to her situation. I just recently came across this series > and downloaded a few titles from Audible and read and have fallen in love! > As far as amazon, I tried it a few years back (when I wasn't as well-versed > with JAWS commands) and got stuck and sometimes the amount of information on > the site can be overwhelming to me *smile*. Again, thanks > Netta > "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that > we > are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most > frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, > talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. > Your playing usmall does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened > about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are > all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory > of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. > And > as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission > to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence > automatically liberates others."-Mariann Williamson > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:17 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: cheap books > > > I don't have much problem navigating Amazon myself and I use JAWS. They > have an access site, but I think the regular site is accessible enough > and the access site doesn't have all the information that the regular > site does. It might help you to use your H and number row keys to > navigate quickly to headings. For example, when I got to the page for a > certain book and I want to look at product details like the ISBN or > number of pages the first thing I do when the page opens is to press the > 1 key. That takes me to the title and author of the book. I then press > the 2 key to skip from heading level 2 until I reach the the product > details section. Anyway, another place to get cheap books is eBay. I > think you can actually get them the very cheapest there. However, to get > books for only a few pennies you have to buy a lot and you have to buy > them all at once. I am talking about the wholesale lots category under > the books category. The drawback is that you may have to spend a lot of > money all at once even though the per book price is very cheap. In the > off line world there are Goodwill stores. The last time I checked them > out they were selling used books in my area for a quarter apiece. Then > there are the FOL sales. That is, Friends of Libraries which have fund > raising sales of books. Oftentimes they will have a weekend sale and the > books will be quite cheap anyway, but on the last day of the sale they > will do what amounts to a clearance sale. That is, they will give > everyone who comes in a bag and you go in and fill the bag with books. > You then might be charged a dollar for each full bag. The real problem > with buying bulk lots, though, is getting a lot of books that are > already in the Bookshare collection and at a FOL sale you might have a > hard time picking and choosing if you are blind. Nevertheless, you might > want to consider some of these ideas and try to think of ways that you > can adapt them to your own situation, By the way, if you do figure out a > way to adapt the suggestions to your own situation you might post your > ideas here and it might help others in acquiring books. > > On 6/7/2012 11:33 PM, Dornetta wrote: >> Hey guys, >> Since I been on the list some of yall have listed several venues to get >> "cheap books". I have listed the ones that I can recall off hand > below: >> Thrift Books >> Paperback Swap >> and the lates Book Mooch >> Are there any others. I am NOT a user of Amazon since I find navigating >> that >> website extremely difficult with JAWS at times but am open to any >> suggestions on navigating the site. Any and all info concerning "cheap >> books" and Amazon are welcomed. >> Thanks, >> Netta >> "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is > that >> we >> are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most >> frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, >> talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of >> God. >> Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened >> about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We > >> are >> all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the >> glory >> of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in > everyone. >> And >> as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people >> permission >> to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence >> automatically liberates others."-Mariann Williamson >> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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