[Blindtlk] Please Advise Me Regarding this Textbook Situation

[Hyde, David W. (ESC)]

As a final option, there is the technology we used before books were electronic. You can always hire a human reader. 
As an aside, I send this with fond memories of Michael Freeman, who suggested this human interface option many times.

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From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Vejas Vasiliauskas via blindtlk
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:47 AM
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Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Please Advise Me Regarding this Textbook Situation

Hi,
Thanks. I already have a Bookshare account, and did not see it on there. I will see about Learning Ally if the first 2 options do not work.
Vejas 

> On Jan 24, 2017, at 04:02, Danielle Ledet via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh by this I mean actually signing up with BookShare.org. It's free if 
> you are a student at a school or university. Are you a member of 
> Learning Ally? they might be there. Not sure how much success you'll 
> have with finding already accessible foreign language books though.
> 
>> On 1/24/17, Danielle Ledet <singingmywayin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, this is a first for me. I have never known DSS to order texts, 
>> but what you propose seems the logical route to take. Not sure what 
>> else I would do short of going to the campus bookstore and purchasing 
>> the books. Normally, that's what takes place. Or, you could grab a 
>> BookShare membership and see if what you need is there. Good luck 
>> whatever you choose to do!
>> 
>>> On 1/24/17, Vejas Vasiliauskas via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> My Spanish hard copy textbooks finally arrived last week. I have the 
>>> chapters I need, but  there are some, for future chapters, that have 
>>> not yet arrived.
>>> DSS ordered the textbooks and obviously do not know where they are, 
>>> it's not their class so not their responsibility. My school's system 
>>> for sorting out mail is also very poor, which potentially means that 
>>> the book might be there.  DSS has expressed their constant 
>>> frustration of this system, but again, are powerless to change it.
>>> What do you all think I can do to see where my textbooks are?
>>> My thoughts are to first contact the company and see if these books 
>>> have been shipped out, because there is a possibility they may not have been.
>>> Then I could see if the books have a tracking number. My next course 
>>> of action would be to conntact the mail center at school and see if 
>>> these arrived, although they do seem very disorganized.
>>> What do you all think? Is this the course of action you would take? 
>>> If not, what would you do?
>>> Vejas
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