[bksvol-discuss] Re: one more Re: questions about: titles, hyphens, footnotes

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:34:10 -0700

Hi Charisma,

Oh, what ebook reader do you use?  Do you like it?  And loving the feel and
smell of a book is something I feel too.  I can't see at all, have never
been able to read a print book, but I have loved the feel and smell of them
since I can remember.  One of the things I love about scanning books, I get
to touch and smell them.  Yes, I'm a bit odd.

I'm totally blind, and use both braille and text-to-speech to scan and
proofread.

I don't know what options you have, but if eyestrain is a problem for you,
you could do some parts of the process visually, and perhaps other parts
using synthesized speech if you have that option.  For example, if you use
ZoomText, or an enlarging tool of that sort, there is speech built into the
program that you can use if it might be helpful.

For example, I do all book clean-up and all formatting using both speech and
braille, then, to read the book to catch errors that the spell check can't
catch, I use primarily speech, only employing the braille display to look at
tricky stuff whose accuracy I question.  I have sounds enabled that alert me
to where paragraphs begin, and pitch changes in speech to alert me to bold
or italicized text, and can enable all punctuation to be spoken if I want
to.  If you have software capable of even some of these things, or just to
read the text, perhaps you could save yourself suffering.  It's noble to
suffer for a good cause, but so sad if it isn't necessary.

Just an idea.  Please ignore it if it won't work for you, or if you don't
like it.  There are as many individual styles of doing any job as there are
people who do it, and as long as the job gets done, there's no wrong way to
do it.

Again, glad to have you with us!

Mayrie

 

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footnotes

> Thanks for being so conscientious, and congratulations on what you're 
> accomplishing and have already accomplished!  Isn't this fun?

It IS! I'd be doing a ton more if it didn't make me so sick to use my eyes
this much.  :)

> Sorry, I'm a deranged perfectionist,

LOL  love that.

> and a book fiend, so I just love this work.

Me, too. Before I had my brain injury I read CONSTANTLY and rarely left the
house without at least 3 books in my pack. Now that I have a reader, I have
something like 200 books on it, but I am afraid to take it out--too
expensive to risk--so I am still lonely for books in waiting rooms. Wish
these readers were cheaper! Nothing like the look, feel, smell, and
(relative) in-expense of a real book.

May I ask, are you sighted or do you do your scanning/proofing with audio?


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