Just got to ask... you do audio books, right? Can you reccomend a few good readers? I have a few favorites, like Jim Dale and Laura Hicks... but I can pick up 10 books from the library, and end up with only one or two that have decent readers...
Most of the audio books I do are from the Library of Congress, so they're not commercially available. As for the books you pick up at the library, I dunno how to recommend things like that. Because I've just gotten used to the sorts of things that make most people cranky with commercial audio books.
This is completely off topic... I want to ask your advice for one of my role playing characters (the game is multiversehaven). He's a pony sized, sentient wolf who's been dropped into a setting with about our current level of technology and needs to hold a job. As a wolf, he simply doesn't have the visual acuity to learn to read printed text, but he wants to find a way to read and write anyway. The setting's very accommodating, so he'll have access to whatever adaptive technology he needs, but I have no idea what's out there. I also don't know what it's like to use that sort of technology.
Would you be willing to talk to me about it? If you'd rather not, it's not a big deal. He's just a role playing character, after all, and I don't have to give details about how he functions that way. I can handwave and say that he and the other characters have put something together.
Well, I suppose if the character had access to a computer, he could always use a screen reader the way I do. He could scan the printed material with a product like Open Book (it's got a link... I'm just not sure what it is right now) and then have the screenreader read it back to him. Or they used to have these bulky things called Optacons, where you moved this camera across a page of text, and then you could feel the texture of the print letters under your other hand. It's a very slow way to read, but it's an alternative to computers.
I think I'll stick with the computer stuff. Most of what the character needs to do involves either reading material that's already online or writing reports (he's working for the local police department). For the things not yet online that he wants to read, there's an npc staff at the library that's scanning things to a computer database, and they'll probably take requests.
Him not having hands is a bigger problem for him, currently, than him not being able to read. It's an interesting challenge.
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Would you be willing to talk to me about it? If you'd rather not, it's not a big deal. He's just a role playing character, after all, and I don't have to give details about how he functions that way. I can handwave and say that he and the other characters have put something together.
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Does that help at all?
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I think I'll stick with the computer stuff. Most of what the character needs to do involves either reading material that's already online or writing reports (he's working for the local police department). For the things not yet online that he wants to read, there's an npc staff at the library that's scanning things to a computer database, and they'll probably take requests.
Him not having hands is a bigger problem for him, currently, than him not being able to read. It's an interesting challenge.
Thank you.
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