I used to be one of those people who collected housefuls of books. Whenever I went into nearly any establishment that sold books I could not resist buying something. That means that by the time I became blind I had a very large personal library of print books. That was in 1988 and it is too bad that I did not anticipate Bookshare. I ended up giving them all away. Downloading electronic books is not the same though. I regard Bookshare and the other sources of electronic books I have as my personal library now, the largest personal library that I have ever had or could ever have imagined ever havving. When I am ready to read a book I download it. That is equivalent to taking it down off my shelf to read it. When I have read it I delete it. I see that as putting it back on the shelf. If I need it again I do the equivalent of taking it down from the shelf again, that is, I download it again. Downloading hundreds of books would be like taking hundreds of books down from my shelves and scattering them all over the house. It would be messy. I only need the book I am reading to be off the shelf.
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Hi, Dana, I'm wondering if you have a severe case of download fever or is itthe intoxication of the knowledge that you can accumulate a library likeyour friends who may collect housefuls of books? If you answer yes to these two questions I pose, then I've been there. It's delightful knowing I won'tbe running out of reading matter. Then there is the sort of frenzy bargainhunters get into when they hear the magic word "one day sale on". The booksyou want at Bookshare will still be there for your downloading and reading pleasure. I'm wondering if sometimes we get caught up in acquiring books because they're "free". Mind you, I'm a paid subscriber to Bookshare, but it's nice to know there are books ready and waiting for me to download andread them. I suppose it might be called a kind of intangible treasure hunt. Don't worry about the download limit. Just ask yourself if you need the bookright now, and if you don't, it will still be there (hopefully). Regards, Kim Friedman (who likes hunting for treasure, especially books). _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dana Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:28 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Trying this again about limits Do you feel there is any means I could request anfy more than 300 books monthly?I honestly know I can't read this many books but honestly with the many manymany books posted up there. I just hate to have to keep track of what I need to yet download. Just wondering your thoughts. Dana If you are a Christian who happens to be single meaning, (not married), this means you may be divorced, widdowed, or never married, and blind, visually impaired or sighted, join us blindchristiansingles+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or visit www.googlegroups.com and search for blindchristiansingles Follo me on twitter djkitty73 Windows live messenger ID and face book ID one in the same dananolan@xxxxxxxxxxx If you have skype add me dana030973 I am an internet radio dj this is not spamIf you love today's country music join me for the country kitchen everySaturday afternoon from 4 pm to 7 pm Eastern www.2020theblink.net__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signaturedatabase 5316 (20100727) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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