I agree with what Ann Parsons has to say. In order to
get a bigger market for the CD-ROM I would go with the
text format. There are people who are learning disabled and
just any student who may like the CD-ROM. I would like it myself.
I would like to see classic works for children in a CD-ROM format
as well such as Aesop and fairy tales, etc..
I think you want to get as broad a market as possible - and this
will make it very possible to integrate disabled and non-disabled
on the same page or same track if you will!
Cathy Alfieri
on 6/24/01 8:00 PM, Ann Parsons at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just bought the American Lit CD. Very nice format, easy to read and
> all. The problem with a CD having Kurzweil format is, of course, that
> it is not readable by anything except a Kurzweil 3000. These books
> are in ASCII and can be read on screen, with synthes of any type,
> brailled, put into MP3's if you can run the sound for them, printed in
> large print, put on tape as plain recordings from a PC speaker, used
> by any computer system running any OS including Mac, all flavors of
> M%, any paperless braille device, Unix, Linux and probably anything
> made up by ET's if they use ASCII. This is what makes Gutenberg and
> projects like it so valuable. This is why we have to continue to
> fight for universality in the reproduction of etexts.
>
> The CD includes, by my suggestion, the DOS text reader, Readit. This
> is the best reader for text that I have ever found, for, it not only
> reads the ASCII text, it also allows you to set book marks and return
> to them when needed. Those using Windows will probably have to run
> Readit in a DOS box, horror of horrors. However, if you can do that,
> you'll get a simple, useable product. Sure you can put the etexts
> into MSWord and use the search feature to find your book mark, but
> this little gem is made for the purpose. <smile>
>
> Ann P.
>
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