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From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@lycos.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Access to TECH Books Online
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 00:40:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004301c32e41$42ba6690$6401a8c0@laptop3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030609024418.GD2777@rednote.net>

Hello Debbie and Janina,

Bookshare is gradually moving the titles from O'reilly to its collection.
Several weeks ago, they added approximately 20 titles.  At this time, they
are a bit short-staffed and are unable to process O'reilly titles as much as
they would like.  However, if as a user, you are interested in obtaining a
particular title, please write to oreilly@bookshare.org and the staff will
obtain a title for you.

I hope this information helps.  

Pratik

P.S  The books that currently exist, are in an excellent quality.  They are
not yet converted in the BRF format, considering the challenge to convert
technical material into braille.  However they are available in Daisy,
which, in turn, can be converted to html which are nicely linked and
excellent heading navigation is provided.



Pratik Patel
Managing Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
the City University of New York
(718) 997-3775
ppatel@qc.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:44 PM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Access to TECH Books Online


Debbie Pomerance writes:
> 
> I had checked out Bookshare a while back - and based on this I looked at 
> their web site again.  Unfortunately, they do not have a way to search by 
> publisher.   I chose to do a title search for words, such as
> 
> DNS
> 
> Sendmail
> 
> Linux
> 
> Nothing for the first 2 - and the third only had 2 or 3, and I don't 
> believe any of them were O'Reilly's.    If they have a lot of O'Reilly 
> books they seem to be doing a good job of hiding them from me?
> 
> Any suggestions on a better way to find their books?

I'm not sure. I had the same experience, which is why I suggested their
O'Reily titles may not yet be in the catalog.

I do know that they have access to all the O'Reily Safari titles. And,
they have them in pristine XML, so they'll be very high quality copies
at BookShare.

I would suggest writing them to find out how to get at them. If you do,
please let us all know what they say.


-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175


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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc John J. Boyer
 ` Lee Maschmeyer
   ` Lee Maschmeyer
     ` Access to TECH Books Online Debbie Pomerance
       ` Darrell Shandrow
         ` Debbie Pomerance
           ` Darrell Shandrow
             ` Debbie Pomerance
               ` Darrell Shandrow
           ` Janina Sajka
             ` Pratik Patel [this message]
               ` Debbie Pomerance
             ` Travis Roth
               ` Fredrik Larsson
                 ` Mike Keithley
                   ` Fredrik Larsson
             ` Debbie Pomerance
       ` Janina Sajka
 ` Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc jude dashiell

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