[bksvol-discuss] Re: books searching and cookbooks
- From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:41:05 -0600
I'm sorry, I may have read your e-mail wrong... but did you say that the
remote listings aren't free with a bookshare subscription? From what I've
noticed, as long as you ahve a bookshare user name and password, you can
access the bookshare books through NLS by logging into bookshare when the
link takes you there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books searching and cookbooks
> I just found an annoyance with bookshare stuff being listed from the NLS
> search. Everything bookshare has turns up in the list as an electronic
> resource, which is sometimes misleading. I am annoyed by finding the
> remote listings, because they are not free with a bookshare
> subscription, downloadable, or even an electronic resource. I'm not even
> sure why bookshare lists them. It is even worse to be taken from NLS to
> bookshare to APH just to find you can't obtain what you were looking for
> in a format you approve.
>
> As you can tell from my subject, my search was for Betty Crocker
> cookbooks. I simply won't have a braille cookbook that huge! I also
> don't want to pay a fortune for something I won't look at because it is
> made inconvenient by being in so many volumes.
> Does anyone know how to get ahold of a comprehensive electronic
> cookbook? Preferably Betty Crocker. Scanning is not a very practical
idea,
> because
> someone would have to edit the whole thing, and that someone won't be
> me. I'd by a CD if I could find something that would work. If some
> accessible book provider provided an electronic version of a popular
> cook book I would pay something for it as well. I just don't like
> really specialized or fancy cook books, and dont want one I can't trust
> because it may be full of scannos.
> If anyone has suggestions please let me know. Off list would be fine.
>
> I also wish General Mills would offer their boxed directions somewhere,
> because although I wouldn't consider two volumes too big, I'm not sure
they
> are up to date enough. they are constantly changing directions on boxes,
to
> my great annoyance. Of course I would probably also prefer that in
> electronic form. I've become very lazy when it comes to manual searching.
> ;-)
>
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
>
>
>
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