[nabs-l] Some Questions About Attending College

Joshua Hendrickson louvins at gmail.com
Sun Dec 22 01:28:58 UTC 2013


Hello Helga.  I'm very surprised that your DS office doesn't have some
kind of scanner to scan books.  I wouldn't want my books in pdf format
either.  See if you could get your books in an alternative format like
word .docx.  What would probably work for you is if you could get your
books in daisy format, then you could navigate by chapters, sections,
and subsections, whatever markup the books had.  Check bookshare.org,
they are a great source of textbooks if you don't like learning ally.
You can get bookshare for free if you are a college student.  Also,
you can get learning ally for free, if you fill out a form over the
phone.  Basically, if you receive things like SSI or SSDI, then you
can get learning ally for free.  They don't advertise this fact.  I
was fortunate to find out about it.  Good luck.  If my college is open
on Monday, I'll call them, and see what I can find out.

On 12/21/13, Helga Schreiber <helga.schreiber at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Joshua, this is Helga. What would happen if my DSS office don't have a
>
> Senta machine to scan my books? But I would like to have them scan! What
> should do about it? I really hate my books in PDF format. I'll really
> appreciate it, if you could give me some suggestions. Thanks and God bless!!
> :-) from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:58 PM, "Joshua Hendrickson" <louvins at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lizzy.  What I used to do, was purchase my textbook from the
>> college bookstore, and give the book and receipt to my disability
>> support office.  The receipt was to show proof of purchase.  Then my
>> disability support office would scan the book or books I needed using
>> kurzweil.  Then I would get the book on cd in mp3 format.  I know now
>> my DS office uses dolphin reader and can put the books in daisy
>> format.  I wouldn't be charged anything to have my DS office scan the
>> books I needed.  At least for me, my textbooks were scanned and
>> proofed very well.  Good luck.  I would also agree that if you're
>> looking for a notetaker for college the braille-sense u2 would be your
>> best bet.  I'm going to see if my REHAB office will get me one.
>>
>>> On 12/21/13, lizzy <lizzym0827 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I just have a few more questions about text books to add to the
>>> discussion.  I know some of you said that your office of
>>> disabilities will scan them for you, but what have others done?
>>> Do you (personally) have to pay the person in disabilities scan
>>> for you or did they hire someone specifically to do this? Does
>>> anyone scan the books themselves using Kurzwhile? Is there a
>>> machine that can get the job done on its own? Is it usually a
>>> hassle to get the PDF versions of textbooks from publishers?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lizzy
>>>
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