Hey Butch, with that new I phone app that lets you take pictures and send 
them to a computer or crowd source them, you can go grocery shopping~!  may 
just take a couple of hours to figure out what you took a picture of. 
Actually it's pretty neat, but I don't have an I Phone and even though that 
app is impressive, you are right, it won't fill the bill like a sighted Y L 
or friend.  73,  Jim WA6EKS


-----Original Message----- 
From: Butch Bussen
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Accessible Radio

I'm not just talking about reading books, how about reading mail, paying
bills, reading grocery flyers and I haven't figured out a way to go
grocery shopping without sighted help.  I can tell you from experience,
life is much easier and fun if you have a sighted wife.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Fri, 24 May
2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> 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.
>
>