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

kestrell

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

Oct 23, 2006 14:21

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.).

ebooks, daisy

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ex_leianora730 October 29 2006, 19:11:53 UTC

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 October 29 2006, 19:35:20 UTC

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

kestrell October 29 2006, 19:42:49 UTC

...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 October 29 2006, 21:56:41 UTC

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?

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ex_leianora730 October 29 2006, 19:14:16 UTC

Braille you, huh? Would you like grade one, or grade two Braille? I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with computer braille or short-hand to offer that just yet. :-)

kestrell October 29 2006, 19:47:00 UTC

Actually, the only braille I do is Web braille and the labels on my CDs and books, which are always stunningly behind in the cataloguing process. I wanted to learn braille in high school when I was first losing what nominal sight I had, but the blind agency powers that be felt it would be wrong to teach me braille while I could still read print (the first of many battles the PTBs and I have had over the years), and by the time I was a blind adult I preferred computers much more (I also have arthritis in my hands, so perhaps it is just as well).