[stylist] Collecting Books

[vejas]

Your son's a writer?
What's his name and what kind of books does he have?
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net
To: <newmanrl at cox.net>, "Writer's Division Mailing List" 
<stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:20:09 -0500
Subject: Re: [stylist] Collecting Books

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
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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
 Ellwood City, PA 16117

 724 758 4979

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





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