[Nfbmo] Fw: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Sign the petition toalloweveryone accessto e-books

Dick Morris dickmorris at netzero.net
Sat Apr 4 17:14:22 UTC 2009


For those who feel dated, it's because you *are* dated. I go back to 16 2/3 
LP's!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Sievert" <msievert at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>; <danflasar at aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Fw: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Sign the petition 
toalloweveryone accessto e-books


Wow,

I feel so "dated" I guess the days of four track cassettes and tone indexing 
is coming to an end.


-----Original Message-----
From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>

Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:07:27
To: <danflasar at aol.com>
Cc: nfbmo list<nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Fw: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Sign the petition to allow
everyone accessto e-books


This is very very good sir. I wish I had written it.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <danflasar at aol.com>
To: <gwunder at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Sign the petition to allow
everyone accessto e-books


> Gary,
>   I've signed the Kindle petition and added the following text in the
> comments box:
>
>    I fully understand why the Author's Guild wishes to protect their
> copyrighted works, but I don't agree with the contention that
> screenreading capacity will interfere with sales of  audio book versions
> of their work.
>      I've used screen readers to read computer screens, text documents and
> public domain works for 15 years.  Text-to-speech technology allows me
> indispensable access to printed material.
>    But when it comes to a choice between an author reading their work and
> text-to-speech, the author will *always* win.  There is no way that
> artificial speech, as good as it is, can compete with David Sederis
> reading his own work, or Roy Blount or Andre Codrescu - or anyone else
> reading their own words.
>    And trying to read poetry via screenreaders is just deadly.  No matter
> how good text-to-speech gets, nothing will ever replace humans in
> articulating the nuances of a good book.
>    Please reconsider your objection to the use of text-to-speech on the
> Kindle.
>
>
>
> Dan Flasar
>
>
>
>
>


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