[blparent] Recordable Story Books

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

So go do it. What am I missing? Get a book you like and read it onto some type of recordable media.


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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:23 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Recordable Story Books

Hi.  I have a couple of storybooks that other people have recorded for my
daughter.  I haven't done one myself, but it would be easy enough to find
out what is printed on each page, then read or recite it aloud.

The one suggestion I would have is to get a book with relatively few pages,
or relatively thin cardboard pages.  Each page has a set of holes in it,
along the spine of the book.  When you open the book, and it has to be under
direct light, sensors pick up which page you are on by which holes are
exposed to the light.  If there are too many pages, or the pages are too
thick, the light has trouble penetrating, so you don't get the right
recording to go with each page, if that makes any sense.

A former pastor recorded "Bright and Beautiful" for Sarah, and the book
works beautifully.  But then her brother Stephen did an Elmo book for her,
and that one hasn't ever worked right.  We usually get the same recording
for several pages in a row, and the book doesn't work at all except in very
bright light, so it's not good for bedtime.

Anyway, if you choose your book carefully, I think recordable books might be
a good idea.  Go on Amazon and check the reviews.  I should have read them
more carefully before I bought the Elmo book.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "janel" <jjointski at verizon.net>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 7:28 PM
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Subject: [blparent] Recordable Story Books

> Hello Again:
> I wanted to purchase a book and record the story in my voice.
> Has anyone ever did something like this?  If anyone has any other idea
> similar to this please let me know.
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