Hi, Howard:
I have two things to add, one was a recollection of the great debate on one 
of these groups regarding whether listening to an audio book qualifies as 
reading.  The Moderator had to ask that the topic be dismissed because it 
went on forever.

I missed the shock of my life when I was 11 years old.  My dad was drilling 
a well and asked me to bring him another well pipe.  They are about 15 feet 
long.  I picked it up and started over to him.  He yelled for me to stop and 
release the pipe but it was too late.  It came in contact with 330 volt 
power line into our property. Luckily, it contacted only the ground cable 
and not the 330.

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Accessible Radio


> Reading through your ears is an adjustment, but it can be done.  Their is 
> no
> way that you can read with your ears nearly as fast as many people do with
> their eyes.  With all of the options from bookshare to Reading Alli, to
> BARD, to News Line, their is more available material than anybody can read
> in a lifetime, if that's all they do.  It seems today that very few people
> get a book from a library or buy it, bring it home and scan it by hand.
> That was the most magical thing you could do with a computer, not so long
> ago.  I remember the day I got my first book as a Father's day pressent. 
> I
> could scan and read and keep it!!!  It is still magic to turn invisible
> print in to understandable speech.
> True confession, how many of you like me hord books on your hard drives? 
> I
> think its like people who lived through the depression hording stuff. 
> They
> went with out and never want to do so again.
> On another topic, I am amazed at how many of us have shaken hands with 
> high
> DC voltage and live to tell the tale.
> Mine was the plate caps on the 807's in the globe chief.  Ten feet away 
> from
> the radio table, felt like a sledge hammer.