"use a scanner if you ***really*** wanna read it." Nice idea, but more and more books are being converted to E Text, and with apps like the kindle, you pay the same price you would pay for a paperback in a physical book store. My point is, when paperbacks and hardbacks are no more, what will we do to have access to E Books? The time is now, folks. If there was ever a time to stand up and demand our rights to have access to the same content as our sighted friends, it is now. Not two months from now, not two years from now, not two decades. The time is now. > > On Jan 7, 2001, at 5:27 PM, sandi sørensen wrote:
> use a scanner if you ***really*** wanna read it. > I use my scanner constantly and hate wasting time on scanning them, but if > you fly rc planes like i do and wanna be good thaht is the way to go, cause > i simply can not get them as ebooks. > > > > sandi > > > On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:25 AM, Jess wrote: > >> First, a question. >> How many people like to read books? I know I do. How many people were >> overjoyed that entire text books were going to be put online? I was. >> However, a lot of EBooks cannot be read by any screen reader we have today. >> Why? Simply put, the text of the book is contained within an OCR image, and >> there is a special reader required to read them. These are not your standard >> PDF files, and the books are protected by DRM, so there is no way to extract >> the contents into programs like text edit. >> As a book worm, I tried out the Kindle app for the IPhone, and was delighted >> to find that a book that I wanted to read was available on the Kindle store. >> However, my joy turned to bitter disappointment when I realized that while I >> could navigate the book's table of contents, cover, and chapters to an >> extent, the text was completely inaccessible. Furthermore, my text books for >> my classes were not usable. Ladies and gentlemen, I fear that unless we as >> blind consumers stand up, and demand that these publishers put their text >> books into standard native file formats, such as pdf or doc, we will lose a >> lot of access to books, and our chances to succeed at college will be >> severely diminished. So, anyone have any thoughts of what to do? >> I thought about starting a petition to ask Amazon to require their >> publishers to make their books usable, but figured that I would be a >> laughing stock for doing so, as most publishers probably wouldn't have the >> time to read, much less consider what I was asking for. >> My point is, as long as E texts get more and more graphical, our chances to >> read will be greatly impaired, and as more and more books become exclusively >> online, we will lose access to the latest editions of books altogether. >> Thoughts, anyone? >> You may also skype me at pianomagic88 >> >> Jes >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
