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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carlton,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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
<A
href="http://www.tsbvi.edu/braille/braillebooks.htm">http://www.tsbvi.edu/braille/braillebooks.htm</A>.
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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good luck.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sally Thomas</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=carltonwalker@gmail.com href="mailto:carltonwalker@gmail.com">Carlton
Anne Cook Walker</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 06, 2009 9:27
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Pibe-division] Dumb
Question</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi all,<BR><BR>I have a dumb question, but here goes . .
.<BR><BR>How difficult is it to get a good braille hard copy from a Bookshare
BRF file?<BR><BR>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).<BR><BR>If possible, I'd really like to know before I speak to her
this afternoon when I pick Anna Catherine up from school.<BR><BR>Please feel
free to email or call me directly.<BR><BR><BR>I truly appreciate your wisdom
on this matter (and others, of course).<BR><BR><BR><BR>Take
care,<BR><BR><BR>Carlton<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Carlton Anne Cook
Walker<BR>213 North First Street<BR>McConnellsburg, PA
17233<BR>Voice: 717-485-4529<BR>Cell: 717-658-9894<BR>
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