[BlindMath] Accessible version of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach

[John G. Heim]

Bookshare gets it's materials mostly from volunteers. I wonder if it 
would  be worth wile to try to put together a better version of this 
book.  Its more than 40 years old but i know it still has a lot of fans. 
We might be able to find some sighted volunteers to describe the images 
for us. I'd be willing to coordinate the project but I wonder if anybody 
else thinks it is worth the bother.

On 9/5/21 9:00 PM, blindmath at nfbnet.org wrote:
> Checking the bookshare version, the first 30 pages had one or two images
> with a basic description, all the rest did not. In this book,
> unfortunately, having the images described is a must...
> 
> 
> Em dom., 5 de set. de 2021 às 22:29, Bhavya shah via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> escreveu:
> 
>> Dear John,
>>
>> Does this book's Bookshare copy have the mathematical content in Math
>> ML and/or image-based illustrations described? Bookshare, in my past
>> experience, has tended to do a poor job with the accessibility of
>> mathematical and scientific texts so wanted to make sure. A professor
>> once recommended this but I never got around to looking for it and
>> reading it; thanks for bringing it up Lucas!
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On 9/4/21, John G. Heim via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Bookshare has it. Bard (library of Congress talking book program) does
>>> not. That's a shock to me. It won a Pulitzer. It's got a wikipedia page.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/4/21 10:02 AM, Lucas Radaelli via BlindMath wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a place where I can find an accessible version of the
>>>> book
>>>> Gödel, Escher, Bach?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
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