My impression is that $35 will get you the book reader attachment and the stand. $25 gets you the stand, but not the BookReader attachment. That is how I understood the page. Of course you can give more if you can afford it. Or you can give less if you just want to donate something. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Larry Lumpkin <llump...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > > Hi annie. Your donation on kickstart entitles you to a reward according to > how much you donate. I believe a donation of $25 to $350 entitles you to > purchase the stand first before it is available to other sources like amazon. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Annie Skov Nielsen > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 1:08 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: only 6 days to go for the fopydo kickstarter fund > > Hi all. > > I am really sad to see this project to go. > > I backed it up with 94 dollars, so I hope I can get two of them, if Tomek wil > succeed in the project, I feel it is a project that will give us a unique > bookscanning stand. > > I can really recommend this stand and bookscanning attachment. I have seen > it, I tested it to give my feedback, and I really love it. Often I take > pictures of books, and scan the pictures with the computer afterwards, and it > is really great. I am danish and the knfb reader among other ocr programs > makes more errors in my language that the computer does, but for taking > pictures I really can not recommend this stand enough. > > If we could get some organizations to support the project it would be > fantastic. > > Best regards Annie. > Den 02/10/2015 kl. 17.10 skrev Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. > <kramlinger.ke...@mayo.edu>: > > Yes, or even if there was a way to influence small or large organizations to > contribute for 10 of the Fopydo stands, that would only be 6 contributors, at > a cost of $350 eachfor a unit of 10. Surely there must be vendors out there > that could resell their stock received as promised by the offer. > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of > Larry Lumpkin > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 9:27 AM > To: 'Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list'; > bksvol-disc...@freelists.org; k1...@listserv.kurzweiledu.com; > viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: only 6 days to go for the fopydo kickstarter fund > > Hi folks. We are rapidly loosing our chance to have a book-reading > attachment for the Fopydo stand for the blind. The developer took the time > and made the effort to offer a modified version of his stand that we can use > and he has the book-reader attachment ready to go. He needs our help. He is > just a working man like many of are or were and has spent some of his own > resources to bring us the stand and I think we owe him some support in > helping him to bring his book-reading attachment to market. He has just 6 > more days to raise the $4.000 he needs to begin production and only 48 > backers so far. If a hundred more people contributed $20, he would be very > close to his goal. My wife and I are retired on fixed incomes and we > contributed $50 so I don’t think $20 is asking too much. I apologize if some > think this is inappropriate but, since many of us have ocr software on our I > devices, a book-reading attachment to an already very good stand would be > very useful to us. > I’m pasting the developer’s description and link to the kickstarter project > below. > > > > > I designed and manufactured Fopydo Scanning Stand for the Blind and Visually > Impaired. I am contacting you because you showed interest in the Fopydo > Scanning Stand and I have just launched a kickstarter campaign for the Book > Reading Aid that is compatible with the stand. I am asking for your support > to gauge if there is interest in manufacturing of this product. Your support > will also be a great help with preparations for a production run since my own > resources are limited. If you know others who may be interested in this > project - please let them know. > > If you are new to the Kickstarter concept, the Rewards section of the web > page lists various pledges that you can make to support the goal of > manufacturing this product and making it widely available. > > Here is the link to the kickstarter page: > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384725316/book-reading-aid > > Thank you! > > Tomek Wardeg > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email toviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. 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