[Faith-talk] Bookshare
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Sat May 27 21:52:22 UTC 2017
Yes, you can read daisy books on the iPhone.
Dave
At 04:33 PM 5/27/2017, you wrote:
>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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