Eileen,

It may be helpful not to focus on this so much as a product, i.e. an
accessible book but rather a societal transformation.  Widespread
availability of books in machine readable format will likely come about
when people get sold on the idea of searchable and downloadable digital
books.  Clearly this is a transitional project.

Kelly


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilene Sirocca" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: The Great Library of Amazonia


> All very nice, but as you can tell from the article, we who have screen
> readers are once again shut out.  Try searching inside a book and see
what
> you hear.  the sounds of silence.  and this time, how can there
possibly be
> an acceptable solution, when the project depends on the pages being
posted
> as pictures?  same old story.
>
> Ilene
>
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