[nabs-l] obtaining electronic texts

bookwormahb at earthlink.net bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 4 20:57:47 UTC 2011


Hi Darian,
I suppose I can search bookshare for it; not a member yet because bookshare 
had more literary stuff not textbooks; but I hear that changed in recent 
years.
I did check rfb.  I was very surprised about this complicated proccess.  I 
think they should order the book on CD and give it to me.  That is much 
simplier than trying to download and unzip a file.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Darian Smith
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 2:02 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] obtaining electronic texts

Ashley, the process at your former campus is  the process that I am
more familiar with. Another option might be checking   the RFB and D
website. Also, bookshare is a great resource.   I do appoligise if  I
have suggested rutes that you have already taken.
hope  this wasHelpful,
  Darian

On 2/4/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a part time student at northern virginia community college, nova, 
> which
> is the largest community college in VA.  It has several campuses.  I’m at
> one of the larger ones
> Well, I am rather surprised at the procedure for obtaining electronic 
> books
> through the disability office who gets them via the publisher.
> What does your school do?
> This is some continuing education for me.
> In my undergraduate studies, I would obtain the book, give a copy of the
> receit to DSS, and they would give me a CD; the text was in word format by
> chapter.
> Yet at nova they want proof of purchase but then the ebook comes in a
> downloadable link from the dss counselor.
> You click on a link, save it to the computer, and click on the link to get
> it downloaded from the internet and it’s a zipped file.
>
> I found this weird.  The unfair thing is the link requires you to download
> an “expander” something that will unzip the file.
> You can only download a trial version of the expander for a certain period
> of time and then have to pay for it; so the next book I get from DSS will
> not be unzippable from online because the expander, stuff it, is a free
> trial for thirty days.
>
> This is a mess and I don’t see why the dss counselor can’t get a CD or
> better yet download the book, unzip it and put it on a CD!
> I opened the book and its unreadable junk so I’m trying to get another
> download link from the dss counselor.
>
> Ashley
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