[blindkid] about a book "Slightly Above Time"

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

Heidi
Because it is so new, it is not out on sites yet. But you can make requests
on bookshare.org--just have to be able to wait awhile for it. Go to the
contact us page and you can fill out the info. AND they may be working on
it already which means it will get to you sooner

Did you try your state book and braille library to see if their is a
braille copy? But, once again it is very new

I have had many students scan their books in order to read them...whether
audio or tactile
Openbook and Kurzweil are great OCR programs to do this

Denise

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:06 AM, <hpscheffer at aol.com> wrote:

> Slightly Above Time by Mark Forti
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Denise M Robinson <deniserob at gmail.com>
> To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children) <
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> Sent: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 5:03 am
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] about a book "Slightly Above Time"
>
>
> Heidi
> What is the name of the book?
> Denise
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org
> >wrote:
>
> > If you can get it as a text file, text files are certainly readable on a
> > BrailleNote.
> >
> > If you scan it and want it to become text, you need to run it through an
> > OCR program to convert it into text. The quality of text conversions
> varies
> > based on several factors, mainly the quality of the source documents (a
> > typical book should be fine) and the quality of the actual scans. The
> > biggest problem with bound books is getting a clear scan all the way to
> the
> > gutter side of the text. If the book is  not terribly expensive, you
> might
> > need to break the binding if it won't get flat enough or you can even
> > physically remove the pages. (When the gutter of the book won't lay flat
> > the text is scanned out of focus and won't convert very well.)
> >
> > Obviously a text file is WAY simpler!
> >
> > You might also post the actual book name here just in case someone has it
> > or hears of it being somewhere. (There's nothing to loose by asking,
> right?)
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:15 AM, hpscheffer at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I'm trying to get a book in braille for my daughter, it is new and
> > Bookshare does not have it, anyone know what the easiest way would be to
> > get it in braille. I'm wondering if I can find it as a download to then
> put
> > on a thumb drive and see if she can read it on her Braille Note, but it
> > would not be in braille format so I don't know if it would work. I could
> > also put it on the Victor reader, but I prefer her to read it. I could
> also
> > scan it, but it has 310 pages so that would be very time consuming. Any
> > experiences from anyone how to get this quickly?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > >
> > > Heidi
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Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
CEO, TechVision
Specialist in blind technology/teaching/training
Email:  yourtechvision at gmail.com <deniserob at gmail.com>
Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons all done with
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