Hi everyone,
I honestly can't say whether I would prefer a hard copy Braille handbook or
an ebook, I guess price and size would be a determining factor. What I am
wondering is, have I missed a crucial point about diagrams in this book?
Everyone so far has written about diagram descriptions--wouldn't it be
useful to have tactile diagrams if we are going to hav a
real Braille book? I am not much of an electronics person (though I really
would like to change that someday) but I have found that well done and well
labeled tactile graphics can be very useful.

Just my opinion.

Ron
n6msa



----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Lawlor" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: brailling arrl handbook


> If this was for sale, would one be able to purchase the electronic file
> to have it brailled locally or read it on there favorite braille
> device?
>
>
> Doug
>
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:18:03PM -0500, McCloskey, Anthony wrote:
> > Hi All:
> > Well I would like to have a copy of the ARRL handbook, but I think it
would
> > be better on cd with a text file for each chapter.  Also, If anything
like
> > this were done, good schematic descriptions would be essentual or the
book
> > would not be very useful.  When I worked for Recorded Periodicals a long
> > time ago, a friend of mine who was an electrical engineer read the
entire
> > 1975 arrl handbook on tape and he described all the schematics and
> > construction techniques.  He did a sooper job. The thing was on 12
cassettes
> > at 15/16 speed and four tracks.  Possibly we could talk some one on the
ARRL
> > staff into writing some of the schematic descriptions.   I think the
2002
> > handbook is around 1000 pages or more, so you know the braille edition
with
> > schematic descriptions would be about 3 times that size or more.
> > Have a good weekend.
> >
> > Tony McCloskey, WA3CAO
> >