[Pibe-division] Dumb Question

[Andy & Sally Thomas]

Carlton,

We've only downloaded and embossed one book from Bookshare.  It was a middle school level book and it was in good shape.  I think there is a comment spot that gives the braille quality for each book.  Another place to download free books is the TSBVI website  http://www.tsbvi.edu/braille/braillebooks.htm.  These aren't guaranteed either.  When we download braille, I ask my son to read carefully and let me know if there are any problems so we can report them to the people who created the book.  He takes great pleasure in finding other people's mistakes (I guess because people are so free with telling him HIS mistakes!).  I think it makes him a more careful reader.  We've never found anything that had big problems in it.

Good luck.

Sally Thomas
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carlton Anne Cook Walker 
  To: Pibe-division at nfbnet.org 
  Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:27 AM
  Subject: [Pibe-division] Dumb Question


  Hi all,

  I have a dumb question, but here goes . . .

  How difficult is it to get a good braille hard copy from a Bookshare BRF file?

  I'm asking because we have waited almost an entire week to get a braille hard copy of a Cam Jansen book from the school.  an aide was typing in the print (don't know why they can't scan, but there you go) and the TVI was translating using Duxbury and printing to a Juliet on-site.  I just looked up the book and found that the BRF (and the Daisy) files are available from Bookshare.  Is there a good reason to type the whole thing in instead of using a Bookshare file?  should I assume that the teacher didn't look for the Bookshare file?  (She has her own account, as does my daughter).

  If possible, I'd really like to know before I speak to her this afternoon when I pick Anna Catherine up from school.

  Please feel free to email or call me directly.


  I truly appreciate your wisdom on this matter (and others, of course).



  Take care,


  Carlton

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  Carlton Anne Cook Walker
  213 North First Street
  McConnellsburg, PA    17233
  Voice: 717-485-4529
  Cell: 717-658-9894



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