[bksvol-discuss] Re: introduction
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:59:03 -0800 (PST)
Welcome to this list, Ibrahim. I'm glad you joined it
and hope you enjoy, and are not put off by, our
occasional casual conversations as well as questions
and answers about books, validating, scanning, etc.
Cindy
--- Ibrahim <filastin48@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
> My name is Ibrahim Ali. I am new on this list. I
> joined the bookshare
> volunteering pool in the beginning of January. I am
> a Professor of Middle
> East history and politics and thought I can help, in
> my spare time, in
> improving the middle east collection of bookshare.
> I am totally blind and
> value all accessibility projects, especially the
> ones dealing with reading
> material. Unfortunately, all my collection of books
> is either in text
> format or scanned in seperat chapters, so, it is of
> no value to bookshare
> users. From now on I will make sure to scan my
> material differently.
>
> As you can probably guess from my name, I am an
> Arab-American of Palestinian
> origin. I will be very much interested in high
> quality books on the Middle
> East. There is a lot of junk being published these
> days on the Middle East,
> Islam, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. I would not
> be interested in either
> scanning or validating such material. I prefer to
> put the little time I
> have in working with good published works. So, if
> you folks come across any
> good books and want some one to validate, please
> alert me to them.
>
> I only choose for validation books in RTF format
> because i prefer to read
> them on my pacmate. Because books on the Middle
> East usually have many non
> English names and terms, reading them in braille is
> much easier to
> understand and correct.
>
> I hope to get to know you all, and keep the good
> work.
>
> Ibrahim Ali
>
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