[Faith-talk] Bookshare

[Jenny Keller]

Hey Linda and Dar,

You can't read Daisy bucks on the iPhone can you.

Again, if it's a reader that talks. Again what's the difference between that and an LS. I've also heard of other book kind of things where you have to pay, but I can't remember which ones they are. Any information.?


Jenny

> On May 27, 2017, at 2:13 PM, Linda Mentink via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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