National Library Service for the Blind: Description of new Daisy player and cassettes

[kestrell]

Kes: I'm having some trouble wrapping my brain around the "cassette" concept, but this has to be an improvement over *shudder* analog (anyone else get those old tapes that make the piercing screeching noises, usually not until you halfway through a cassette? I safeword on audio torture.).

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[ex_leianora730]

Hi there! I was pointed to your journal by elorie. Fascinating!

Me, blind, live in Daytona Beach Florida, work at Library for the blind as receptionist, hate hate hate those damn squeaky tapes! squeeeeeeeeeeak! My ears! My bleeding ears! I'm gonna add you to my friends list, mkay? Feel free to recipricate, should the spirit move you. :-)

[kestrell]

A blind person who works in a library? Consider yourself friended *grin* and thanks for friending me.

[kestrell]

...and you list Christopher Lee, milton, and Lucifer as intersts *gratified awe*. I will have to send you one of my Harry Potter fanfics along with my article on disability Harry Potter fanfic.

[dt_path_dolohov]

Sounds great! I can't wait to red it.

All right, now for the important questions! NFB or ACB? Cain or guide dog? JAWS or Window-eyes? Kurzweil or Open book? Which products do you use to make life easier for you?

[kestrell]

*snorfle* Oh no, theological questions.
I don't belong to either of the bipartisan parties, though I am a member of a very cool local group of blind students named MAVIS, which is associated with the ACB. They throw fun parties, are high on signal, and don't make me chant or sing.
I'm a woman with a stick. I like to sing The Flash Girls song "A Girl Needs a Knife" as "a girl needs a stick" though I tend to keep adding verses until I get to "a girl needs an accessible flamethrower," which kind of reaks out the sighties.
I'm not a dog person, though I usually like other people's guide dogs if they are smart.
Kurzweil, totally Kurzweil. He went to MIT too.
I also do computers instead of braille, and ebooks instead of audiobooks, mostly because I tend to like obscure books no one is producing in accessible formats.
But I belong to Bookshare and I donate many of my fantasy and science fiction texts to it.
Really, I'm a bad blind person *grin*.

[dt_path_dolohov]

Oh, hell yeah! We can be bad blindies together then!

I have a guide dog, I also use Kursweil, I hate the NFB, and I'm a fan of science fiction and fantasy. I, too, love E-books. I'm too damn impatient to take the time to read an audio book most of the time. As for the HP fanfic, I'm definitely looking forward to reading it. I write Harry Potter Slash, as well as DS9, Star Wars, and sometimes other more obscure fandoms. It's wonderful to meet another open-minded blindy!

[kestrell]

I posted some piece of NFB news once, and I think three different blind people who read my LJ posted replies that went something like, "Hey, the NFB did something useful!" and then they started swapping NFB versus ACB jokes, which I didn't even suspect there was an entire genre of, and then we begandeclaring we were bad blind people. It was very liberating.

So you get not one but three or four other or maybe more bad blind people when you read my LJ.