Yeah, sure More separate and not equal.

What else do students get out of access to texts besides the access to 
texts?

--the opportunity to try out courses just like sighted students and not 
have to order materials months in advance and have no opportunity for 
last-minute switches if it turns out the professor is impossible or the 
room unreasonable or any of the other reasons that sighted students 
decide to adjust their schedules! A demo project might be proclaimed a 
big success and completely ignore this big aspect of course and text 
choice.

--The opportunity to pass books around among peers if people take up 
intellectuall questions the way one sort of expects college students to.

Okay, Rant off.

DoreneC

-----Original Message-----
From: Flor Lynch <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 11:57 am
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Why Did Feds Claim Kindle Violated Civil Rights?

Hi,

The universities could, quite legitimately, claim thats, as the project
was just a pilot, the results would just be a 'proof of concept', not
necessarily appplying to the Kindle alone whether accessible or not; to
test whether such small devices would work instead of the mass of paper
for delivery of texts and related materials; and that henceforth such
devices rendered accessible could and would be used when appropriate.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ana Garza" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Why Did Feds Claim Kindle Violated Civil Rights?


> Hmm, I guess the writer thinks the market is the only meaningful 
force
> in the U.S. civil rights for their own sake aren't important, and
> neither is equal opportunity or my right to access whatever I want as
> a tax paying citizen.
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