[blindlaw] accessing textbooks while in law school

Tue Jun 11 23:33:19 UTC 2013

I work at a university in Australia and we have of the scanners from the
Googlebook project.  Not sure why they spent the money to buy it, but for VI
it is great.  It takes about 10 minutes to scan a book and there is very
little editing needed.  Since it is in the library they are happy to scan
library books ... within reason.  
I also find hitting up the author can be helpful if they are in your school.

Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2013 7:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] accessing textbooks while in law school

Hi all,

This is turning out to be  an interesting discussion.
I generally get my books scanned as it is very difficult here in India to
get most books in an accessible format.
However, I prefer to hire readers for reading my books.
This is primarily because I find it hard to concentrate for long periods of
time while reading books on the computer and also because I find it hard to
remember things that way.
I instead prefer to ask my readers to read the books  and then try to
recapitulate all the pertinent points in my own words.

Best,
Rahul

On 12/06/2013, Bill Spiry <b.s.spiry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Readers like Kinddel and Nook are well and fine but I found they lack 
> the flexibility I needed with texts for law school. Bottom line is 
> that most of us need to have the capability to make notes and mark up 
> law texts to enable efficient review and reference later. Getting my 
> books to a word format gave me that capability. I can't imagine what a 
> hassle it would have been to have my book in a format with such 
> limited markup. The point is, you'll likely best be served by pushing 
> to get your texts in Word or at least PDF so you can convert them into 
> an editable format for law school. Resources on my mobile devices 
> certainly are useful for me in my practice but they wouldn't have 
> gotten me through LS.
>
> pushing
>
>
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> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Michael Nowicki
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:06 PM
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> What about the e-book reader Blio?  How does it compare with the 
> others discussed in this conversation, in particular with regards to 
> the availability of law school textbooks?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bill 
> Spiry
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 12:57 PM
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> Note that some universities disability services offer a scanning 
> service for converting textbooks for students with disabilities. The U 
> of Oregon does this in association with the main library on campus. 
> Very useful for those few texts I could not get digitally from 
> publishers and for large packets assembled for some courses by 
> professors.
>
> I suggest asking your campus office for students with disabilities 
> an/or the campus library if such a service is available.
>
>
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> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Luis 
> Mendez
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> Don't forget, that if all else fails, you still have the option to 
> scan the material you need to read.  In some cases that will be your only
option..
> Therefore it is important that you acquire a high quality ,high 
> capacity, high-speed scanning system. I rely on such a system in my
practice.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 9, 2013, at 7:49 PM, Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> i'm sure this question gets asked rather frequently, but i am 
>> wondering if anyone can provide some guidance about accessing 
>> textbooks for law school. i have been out of undergrad for 4 years 
>> and so much has changed since i left school.
>>
>> i am aware that the nook, kindle, etc are inaccessible, but what 
>> about getting the nook and kindle apps on my iPhone/iPad? are these 
>> platforms then accessible? if books are available as nookbooks, 
>> kindles, or on ibooks, am i able to use my apple devices to access 
>> them? how about from a windows computer?
>>
>> secondly, while in undergrad i was mostly successful at contacting 
>> the permissions departments of publishers to have them provide 
>> electronic copies for me. sometimes the disabilities office needed to 
>> intervene, but i got many books this way. i have as of yet not had 
>> success doing this with law books. can anyone provide any tips of the 
>> trade to be more successful at this?
>>
>> i greatly appreciate any advice you might be able to offer.
>>
>> thanks,
>> laura
>>
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