[NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books

Tue Dec 4 22:23:16 UTC 2018

www.sacred-texts.com has some pretty cool public domain stuff, 
but I don't know how good their Orthodox collection is.

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From: Justin Heard via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Valerie Gibson via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 10:44:06 -0500
Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books

Yeah, I thought of Project Gutenberg this morning. Are there any 
other
websites that are good for accessing the public domain? I use 
Christian
Classics Etherial Library as well.

My goal is to save whatever I scan into a word document so I can
transfer it to my braille display rather than relying on 
Bluetooth or
USB. Would Esword allow me to do that?

On 12/4/2018 10:40 AM, Valerie Gibson via NABS-L wrote:
 You might try esword or logos for ios.  Reading books on logos 
is a bit fussy.  I've been meaning to email developers about it, 
but don't have the tech knowledge to know what exactly is going 
on...however books can be read there.  The best way I've gotten 
around the glitch with VO and reading the boomks on IOS is to 
read with a braille display.  you can read perfectly that way.
 If it's an old book you might try looking in the public domains 
for it.  Often times I've run into books that cost to buy which 
are free because copyright has expired, and the only thing you're 
really paying for is the fact that someone compiled them or the 
fact that they look pretty.

 Hope this helps.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Dec 4, 2018, at 7:46 AM, Justin Heard via NABS-L 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 I did try the school library, but a lot of these books come from 
seminaries and monasteries so they donâ€™t have them. Several are 
several centuries old but have only recently been translated to 
English. They are academic, but only if youâ€™re focusing your 
studies like I am.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Dec 4, 2018, at 6:30 AM, Karl Martin Adam via NABS-L 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 I can't help you with scanning, but have you tried Bookshare?  
Also, if you're a student, have you tried your school library (if 
you're looking for academic books, any decent university library 
should get you access to a lot through Oxford Scholarship Online, 
Cambridge Core, and Proquest.

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 From: Justin Heard via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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 Date sent: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 21:01:07 -0500
 Subject: [NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books

 Hi there.

 I am angry. I want access to a lot of books that have not been 
made into
 EBooks through either Kindle or Nook, and I'm tired of waiting. 
These
 aren't bestsellers, so it could be years.

 What is the most reliable method for scanning my own books? I 
have
 thought about doing this before, but when I last tried with
 Kurzweil1000,  or maybe 3000, I did not have the best of luck. I 
was
 using a flatbed scanner. I succeeded because I had read the book 
in a
 digital format before so I caught the mistakes. I'm looking for 
a way
 that will have a 95% success rate in recognizing text, and will 
allow me
 to save it as a word document.

 Thanks for reading this.

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