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
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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.
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