[NABS-L] question about textbooks for college

[nesma aly]

Thank you all for your help

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 07:49 Karl Martin Adam via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> 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
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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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