[stylist] Collecting Books

[Lynda Lambert]

I do not do Braille. I learned the alphabet at rehab, and then when I came 
home I did the first part of Braille through the mail, and was on the second 
course. Then, I decided that I was not going to put my time into learning it 
when I could do things so much faster with electronics. I do have the 
Kurzweil scanner and I could scan my books into it and put on the computer 
and listen to them. I have only done that with my son's book when it came 
out. I should do it with more books though, so I can really enjoy them. But 
there is something about a real book that just makes me smile - no matter I 
cannot read it any longer. I still love to hold them and think about them.

Lydna
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Collecting Books


> 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
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> 724 758 4979
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