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

[Lucas Radaelli]

I decided to go after this book after hearing many , many times people
recommending it. It seems to be really worth it.



Em seg., 6 de set. de 2021 às 12:47, John G. Heim <jheim at wisc.edu> escreveu:

> 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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