Comments for Bookshare Blog http://blog.bookshare.org Latest news and updates from Bookshare Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Early Days of Bookshare by Liz Halperin http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/02/08/the-early-days-of-bookshare/#comment-1016 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:53:44 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1886#comment-1016 I mentioned an early book I had submitted after I foolishly removed all the page breaks. That book has recently joined the collection, now an excellent quality book, thanks to a generous grant from one of our benefactors. That’s wonderful because the book pages are larger than the standard home flat bed scanner and the formatting is a bear to tackle.
Liz Halperin, who now can read that very book!

]]> Comment on The Early Days of Bookshare by Betsy Burgess http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/02/08/the-early-days-of-bookshare/#comment-1015 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:59:50 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1886#comment-1015 You still have the wording! OCR and the quality of our books have improved lots since those early days. Maybe you’ve noticed?

]]> Comment on The Early Days of Bookshare by Betsy Burgess http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/02/08/the-early-days-of-bookshare/#comment-1014 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:57:28 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1886#comment-1014 Wow! The organization must have been too small to reply. Our apologies many years later! Obviously, we reply now.

]]> Comment on The Early Days of Bookshare by John E. Miller http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/02/08/the-early-days-of-bookshare/#comment-1011 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:03:15 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1886#comment-1011 BTW the wording from the original Bookshare.org website c/ 2002-2005 (which I have saved) was:

BRF (Digital Braille)

Bookshare.org accepts submissions of BRF files, so if you have access to carefully proofread BRF files, we welcome you to submit them as the quality will likely be
better than what the Bookshare.org software automatically generates for its downloadable BRF files.

]]> Comment on The Early Days of Bookshare by John E. Miller http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/02/08/the-early-days-of-bookshare/#comment-1010 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:59:25 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1886#comment-1010 I remember my earliest days with Bookshare.org — it was 2003 and I had just (proudly) become a US Library of Congress Certified Braille Transcriber. I read on the Bookshare website that they were requesting anyone who had edited proofread BRF Braille files to contact and maybe provide such files to Bookshare.

I sent several emails to Bookshare saying that I had several such volumes that I had pains-takingly entered via 6-key as back then I had no scanning / OCR / automated Braille translation capabilities.

But I never received a reply. Nothing. I did not again come in contact with Bookshare until 2007 but that is a whole ‘nother story.

]]> Comment on The Early Days of Bookshare by Betsy Burgess http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/02/08/the-early-days-of-bookshare/#comment-1007 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:04:35 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1886#comment-1007 Thank you for your comment!

]]> Comment on The Early Days of Bookshare by Philiph Woodforf III http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/02/08/the-early-days-of-bookshare/#comment-1006 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:09:56 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1886#comment-1006 Hello my name is Philiph Woodford III,
I have been a member to Bookshare since 2009. I asked Bookshare to have Robin Hobbs’ publisher added to bookshare in 2010 so that other Bookshare members could enjoy her books as much as I have. I hope Penguin Group U.S.A. is added to the collection.

]]> Comment on Remember Arkenstone, before Bookshare? by Davis Graham http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/01/22/remember-arkenstone-before-bookshare/#comment-988 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:20:13 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1877#comment-988 Dear Bookshare team:

First of all my life is changed by your efforts as a person with the Gift of Dyslexia. Textbooks have to be the next frontier. The combination you all have created with Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or textbook into a virtual book.

With this combination if the reader comes to a person, place or thing they don’t understand then all the reader has to do with a couple of clicks and connection to the internet click the dictionary and voila they have the meaning of the word, or picture of the person or a map of where the place is located.

In today’s iPad world Bookshare.org and Read:OutLoud are volumes ahead as a tool for the student. The next step in education is for all textbooks to be on an iPad foundation with the ability to update the textbooks with the schools WiFi or access references or contributing resources to the textbook.

Green education, what a new idea, except it isn’t, it has been brought to the system by the Learning Disabled, through BookShare.org.

Don’t stop developing, you have the best multidimensional minds as members, use us and and let’s take education to the next level.

]]> Comment on Announcing the Read2Go App: The DAISY reader for Bookshare on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch by Betsy Burgess http://blog.bookshare.org/2011/01/26/announcing-the-read2go-app-the-daisy-reader-for-bookshare-on-the-ipad-iphone-and-ipod-touch/#comment-985 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:23:01 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1229#comment-985 Thank you for sharing the information about getting started. I’m glad it’s working for you now!

]]> Comment on Announcing the Read2Go App: The DAISY reader for Bookshare on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch by Paulette http://blog.bookshare.org/2011/01/26/announcing-the-read2go-app-the-daisy-reader-for-bookshare-on-the-ipad-iphone-and-ipod-touch/#comment-984 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:19:08 +0000 http://blog.bookshare.org/?p=1229#comment-984 Kathy
I also am thankful that there is an app that will work with Bookshare. Yes, it was a questions whether the $19 would be a waste if my teenage son did not use this. I researched other readers and decided on an iPad. I felt my son would use this more that the other readers. I first needed to get him “hooked” on the iPad then I got a list of books from school that he will be reading the rest of this school year.

My first download was tricky as I did not know whether to download from Safari or open up the Read to Go app. In exploring I realized you had to go to settings in Read to Go, put in the students info then go back to search and put in the name of the book. Once I did that…it was seemless…there was the DOWNLOAD button and it was downloaded in moments. I downloaded the 3 books he needs to read for the rest of this school year.

When first opening the book, if you hit the play button, it reads all the copyright info and warnings. For my son, I will need to teach him to go through to the beginning of the book. He will not tolerate all the “legal” info….but it is important for students to know about copyright!

FINALLY a tool that I hope my son grows with academically…hopefully into college. I agree, it offers teenagers another option beyond the computer screen. Now to teach my son’s teacher how this works and hopefully to get some for schools.

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