[NABS-L] question about textbooks for college

[Karl Martin Adam]

Hi Nesma, first of all, it's amazing that your disability office 
can get you books so quickly.  When I was in undergrad, it often 
took much longer.  I suggest talking to instructors as soon as 
possible.  They've almost certainly had to put book orders in 
already, and the holdup is now the bookstore actually getting the 
books.  Just tell your instructors that you're blind and so you 
need to know early so you can get the books in an accessible 
foormat.  That also gives you some buffer time if there is an 
issue with the publisher, which happens sometimes.  Another thing 
worth doing is checking if your university library has digital 
access to the books.  It took me a long time to realize just how 
many ebooks I can get for free from my library without going 
through DSS or Bookshare or the like (basically all books 
published in the last decade or so by Routledge, Springer, 
Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, etc. are 
probably available to you that way as accessible PDFs).

Best,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: nesma aly via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
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Date sent: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:58:48 -0400
Subject: Re: [NABS-L] question about textbooks for college

I guess what I’m trying to ask, is how long before the 
beginning of the
semester should I be emailing professors asking about books if 
they’re not
up on the Bookstore website keeping in mind the fact that the 
assistive
technology department is going to need two weeks to get books if 
they are
not available elsewhere.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 20:38 Keri Svendsen via NABS-L 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
wrote:

 You can also have your disability services  check out access 
text. I try
 to get my books a couple weeks ahead of time.

 thank you,

 On 7/6/2020 8:09 PM, nesma aly via NABS-L wrote:
 Hi NABsters,
 I have a question. my assistive technology department at my 
college says
 that if a book can't be found on things like bookshare and 
learning
 allli,
 that it will take up to two weeks to get it from the publisher. 
I am
 wondering how long in advance of the start of the semester 
should I be
 looking at the bookstore for books before I worry? I had a 
incident the
 fall of 2019 where I didn't know any of my books  untill the 
first day
 and
 was forced to give the department the rental receit. I would 
love to
 avoid
 this from happening again.

 thank you,

 Nesma
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