[Faith-talk] Bookshare

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Jenny,

The Bookshare membership, as has been said already, is $50 per 
year.  If someone volunteers to scan books for them, they get 
some off their membership fee.  The books on Bookshare are in 
different formats: Braille, DAISY and text.  There are many books 
currently being used by schools and universities, and they come 
right from the publisher so that students have them more quickly.  
They have a lot more Christian and faith-based literature than 
NLS will ever have.

SANDRA, regarding student membership, I am a Hadley student, but 
I can afford to pay the membership, so I do.  They offer free 
memberships to so many, and then they send out pleas for 
financial help.  In my heart, I believe that, since I can, I 
should pay, freeing up a membership for some student who couldn't 
afford it, but needs Bookshare as a valuable resource for their 
course materials.  Blind people shouldn't always be takers, even 
if we can, in my opinion.

Blessings,

Linda