Yes, but Bookshare's iOS sucks compared to the BARD app. And who wants to add BRF files from email or dropbox to bard all the time? I'd rather have more NLS books.
Devin Prater Sent from my iPod 5. iMessage, facebook, and face-time: devinpra...@live.com email: d.pra...@me.com Google Talk/keychat: r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com > On Apr 17, 2014, at 17:52, Caitlyn and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Better to help bookshare out, I think. Their library is already much bigger > then the nLS one. > > I also belive that NLS has it's own way of increasing it's library, and > volunteers submitting material isn't included in it. I could be badly > mistaken, though! > Cait > >> On Apr 17, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> perhaps its time that those of us with braille note taker devices start >> volunteering some time to getting new braille books submitted to the NLS. >> the only really bad hitch I see with this is the copyright laws here in the >> US. If that doesn't turn out to be an issue, then we can all participate in >> expanding the current library of braille materials from its very low >> percentage to something far better. My one reason for us doing this is: we >> need braille literacy and there just isn't enough available materials to go >> around. The last braille loaner I tried to get from the local talking book >> library was on backorder for several months. This, among other reasons, is >> why we need to expand the electronic library versions. Having those files >> available will mean that one can simply get them printed through a local >> branch. >> >> anyway, it would be nice to be able to read braille from any document around. >> >> -eric >> >> >> ---------- 2 of 5 ---------- >> From: Teresa Cochran <batsfly...@me.com> >> Date: Apr 17 06:12AM -0700 >> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/1ce6a32a759c493b >> >> If you convert a file to html, louis will convert it to brf. That makes >> sense, since the markup is text as well. Going the other way is a little >> more problematic. Half the time Louis interprets braille italics as dots 4-6 >> in computer braille, putting a period before each word instead. >> >> Personally, even with programs such as Kurzweil, I always found back >> translation to be less than desirable. There are too many variables, and >> sometimes there are strange results with it. Saying this as primarily a >> braille reader, there are very many more books available in audio and other >> formats than in Braille. In my personal experience, I've started keeping brf >> files in their format and using a Braille display to type in them, rather >> than back-translating. Of course, I have the luxury of having a braille >> display. >> >> Teresa >> >> Teresa Cochran >> batsfly...@me.com >> Facebook >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
