Hi Barbara;
Your note is very intuitive.
It raises some good points.
Keep it up.
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Sheinbein" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:04 PM
Subject: GW Micro Developing New Audio Player
>I believe some on this thread are forgetting some basic facts. There are
many blind and print handicapped folks who cannot afford or just choose
not
to own a computer. If your only source of income is a Social Security
check, that may prevent you from buying a computer or paying a $50 fee for
things. I also know several blind people who only use their computer for
emails and some Internet. They do not use it for anything else. Many
sighted people are the same way. I grant you that an older population
today is less likely to own a computer than younger people. Those of us
who are on this and similar email list have a very different perspective
than those off such lists. I am aware there is a big concern among a lot
of blind folks who are not computer people about the new digital books and
players. They are under the misconception that to use the new digital
players they will be dealing with a computer like device. That is making
some folks very unhappy about the change. For myself, I do not wish to
just sit at my computer to listen to a book. I want to be portable. The
only way to do this is with a cartridge, disk or some similar media. If I
do not use a computer how would I borrow an audio book from the public
library? We have door to door service with NLS books. I am not saying
there is not room for improvements in the NLS program, but I think if the
free and mailing systems were gone, the amount of reading done by blind
and
print handicapped people would dramatically drop. Sighted people have a
variety of options to read if they want to do so. For all practical
purposes, we must rely on the use of some type of technology whether low
or
high tech for our reading material. Given the variables of economics,
personal preferences, transportation limits, etc. I believe making the NLS
service focused to a PC would be a mistake. Big smile.
Barbara Sheinbein
services or
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <[email protected]>
To: "Don Mauck" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: GW Micro Developing New Audio Player
Don
What a lot of folks don't realize is that more and more public libraries
are into audio books. Commercial audio books can be produced far more
quickly than NLS titles are.
And those are free too. And, as for BookShare, I hardly would view a
$50
annual fee as all that costly given what you can get.
I am not a book reader to that great of an extent any more -- thanks to
the web and the content it puts at my disposal -- but I have no qualms
about paying my annual BookShare fee.
It is the least I can do for such a worthwhile service which is easily
more than the token fee charged.
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument
afterwards.
Begin
the day with the Word of God
and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
Hudson Taylor
If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original
sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and
your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending
your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it.
All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and
can be searched through and sorted using the search
form at the bottom of the page.
If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to
[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body
of the message.
If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original
sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and
your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending
your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it.
All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and
can be searched through and sorted using the search
form at the bottom of the page.
If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to
[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body
of the message.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.4/1976 - Release Date: 02/27/09
13:27:00
If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original
sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and
your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending
your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it.
All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be
searched through and sorted using the search
form at the bottom of the page.
If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to
[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body
of the message.
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.4/1976 - Release Date: 02/27/09
13:27:00
