[Faith-talk] Bookshare

[David Andrews]

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