[nfbmi-talk] FW: creative writing Fw: [bardtalk] For all of you Digital NLS Player fans...

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Dear Lana,

I can certainly relate to this. Thanks for sharing.

Sincerely,
Abbie

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> This is priceless.
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> From: Jody W. Ianuzzi <mailto:jody at thewhitehats.com>
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> I'm forwarding this from another list, it is fantastic! JODY
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> This was forwarded to me and I thought you might enjoy it!

> Dixie

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> Once upon a midnight dreary, while I listened, weak and weary,

> To many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

> While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly I heard a tapping,

> As of something gently snapping¬snapping from my player’s core.

> “Tis the tape”, I sadly muttered, as a quiet curse I swore,

> “Just the tape¬and nothing more.”

> Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,

> As I in a fit of temper threw that tape upon the floor,

> So many times my player failed me, with frustration it had ailed me,

> Many new ones they had mailed me, saying “this one’s good for sure”,

> But each time I’d press that button, it seemed that it was all for
nothing,

> “Would I ever find that something lets me listen?”, I implored,

> “To my books forevermore?”

> Eagerly I wished for morrow¬for perhaps, surcease of sorrow

> Would come with the next tape I would borrow¬Without hiss or pop or roar,

> Without stop, or twist, or tangle, maybe it would play me more,

> Dare I hope that I could someday hear a book straight through once more?

> One day sit, relax, and listen, find my reading joy restored

> By a book forevermore?

> I woke that morning, after dreaming, in my room the sunlight streaming

> Tried again to play that tape I’d thrown upon the floor.

> Then I heard a quiet tapping, as of someone gently rapping,

> ‘Twas the postal carrier tapping, tapping on my dwelling’s door

> “Friend”, he said, with smile of greeting, “this is such a merry meeting,

> For I bring the gift of reading¬reading that is now restored

> By digital books forevermore!”

> I took the package that he gave me¬could this package truly save me

> From the anguished cries I made when my books would play nevermore?
> I opened up the package, beaming; inside a black machine was gleaming,

> And a small white cartridge, seeming much too small one book to hold,

> But I put that cartridge in it, and within a single minute,

> I knew that this machine would win it¬win my heart forevermore.

> And cassette tapes? Nevermore!

> Wendy Eisenberg, Librarian

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