[stylist] Collecting Books

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Well, you can still read them via a device with optical character reading
abilities! With the desktop and lap top computers it takes a scanner and the
right software. Secondly, with a KNFB reader, essentially a smart phone with
Kurzweil reading software. Or third the iPhone with a text reading program.
These three options can get you speech output and/or if you have an
additional piece of equipment as in a braille display, you can also get the
chance to read them in Brail.

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:01 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] Collecting Books

This morning, i was checking out some books for sale on www.amazon.com and I
ordered a few. I ordered books by Irene McKinney, a WV poet who passed last
week. I ordered the new Dorianne Laux book; and a couple of Robert Bly
books.  After I ordered them, I began to think about WHY I still order
actual books for my collection. I cannot read them, of course. There is
something in me, still, that needs to hold a book in my hands, feel it's
heft, and it's smell, and put it on my book shelf in alpahabetical order.
Does anyone else here do this?  I am thinking that when my box of new books
arrives, my husband must surely wonder why a blind person still buys books
she can never read. He has never said anything about it, but he HAS to be
curious. I am curious myself.

Lynda
Lynda Lambert
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117

724 758 4979

My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com



 
 
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