[NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books
Karl Martin Adam
kmaent1 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 22:23:16 UTC 2018
www.sacred-texts.com has some pretty cool public domain stuff,
but I don't know how good their Orthodox collection is.
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From: Justin Heard via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Valerie Gibson via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 10:44:06 -0500
Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books
Yeah, I thought of Project Gutenberg this morning. Are there any
other
websites that are good for accessing the public domain? I use
Christian
Classics Etherial Library as well.
My goal is to save whatever I scan into a word document so I can
transfer it to my braille display rather than relying on
Bluetooth or
USB. Would Esword allow me to do that?
On 12/4/2018 10:40 AM, Valerie Gibson via NABS-L wrote:
You might try esword or logos for ios. Reading books on logos
is a bit fussy. I've been meaning to email developers about it,
but don't have the tech knowledge to know what exactly is going
on...however books can be read there. The best way I've gotten
around the glitch with VO and reading the boomks on IOS is to
read with a braille display. you can read perfectly that way.
If it's an old book you might try looking in the public domains
for it. Often times I've run into books that cost to buy which
are free because copyright has expired, and the only thing you're
really paying for is the fact that someone compiled them or the
fact that they look pretty.
Hope this helps.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 4, 2018, at 7:46 AM, Justin Heard via NABS-L
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
I did try the school library, but a lot of these books come from
seminaries and monasteries so they donât have them. Several are
several centuries old but have only recently been translated to
English. They are academic, but only if youâre focusing your
studies like I am.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 4, 2018, at 6:30 AM, Karl Martin Adam via NABS-L
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
I can't help you with scanning, but have you tried Bookshare?
Also, if you're a student, have you tried your school library (if
you're looking for academic books, any decent university library
should get you access to a lot through Oxford Scholarship Online,
Cambridge Core, and Proquest.
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Subject: [NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books
Hi there.
I am angry. I want access to a lot of books that have not been
made into
EBooks through either Kindle or Nook, and I'm tired of waiting.
These
aren't bestsellers, so it could be years.
What is the most reliable method for scanning my own books? I
have
thought about doing this before, but when I last tried with
Kurzweil1000, or maybe 3000, I did not have the best of luck. I
was
using a flatbed scanner. I succeeded because I had read the book
in a
digital format before so I caught the mistakes. I'm looking for
a way
that will have a 95% success rate in recognizing text, and will
allow me
to save it as a word document.
Thanks for reading this.
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