[nabs-l] Handouts etc.

Kirt Manwaring kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 17:55:15 UTC 2011


Shawn,
  your suggestion requires work and extra effort.  Anything requiring
work and extra effort is a thing not worth doing.  Therefore, by the
logic which lots of blind people follow, your idea simply isn't
practical.  :)
  Best,
Kirt

On 3/31/11, Sean Whalen <smwhalenpsp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that it's absolutely ideal, but can somebody please explain to me what
> is so terrible about having to scan something yourself if you have the
> equipment to do so at your disposal? I understand why multiple long books
> could be a problem, though scanning those is, by and large, what I did
> through college. In the time it takes to write a post about how horrible it
> is to have to scan a handout, the damn thing probably could have been
> scanned and OCR ed thrice over. Sorry if I'm way off base here, but we have
> to be prepared to step up and do things for ourselves if we want to succeed,
> even if it isn't fair or right, which I agree, it isn't. Life isn't always
> fair, and the right thing isn't always the thing done. Not saying that it's
> not something to strive for, but while we're striving, we'd better be
> prepared to deal with the world as it actually exists.
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> Sean
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