[nabs] project?

[Dornetta]

Josh, I think that is a wonderful idea but how can this get accomplished? 
And like Laura said...I have never heard of some of the sites you listed as 
well..so thanks for the "heads up" and I will begin looking into these 
sites. :-)
Netta
"Just because you are blind, does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Glowacki" <orangebutterfly87 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list for NABS,National Alliance of Blind Students." 
<nabs at acb.org>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs] project?


> Josh,
>
> I think this is a fantastic idea.  I only wish NABS had the means
> to do so.
>
> However, what would be amazing is if you could kindly send an
> email to our webmaster at
> webmaster.acbstudents at gmail.com
> and include the urls and a brief description about each site.
> You listed some sites I've never heard of before, and I think
> they would be valuable for people looking for accessible public
> domain books.  I think we should include those on our website
> somewhere in our resources section.
>
> Laura
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Josh Kennedy" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
> To: <nabs at acb.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs] project?
>
>
> Hi
> ok let me clarify:
> I want to or would like to:
> 1. take librivox.org and gutenberg.org plus files in the EWTN
> library
> combine them.
> 2. all these are public domain texts. in summary: *to create a
> library
> of public domain daisy-audio and public-domain daisy-text books.
> bookshare has some public domain books but not very many in daisy
> or brf
> oh yes brf format as well. if not a website then an email list
> where
> such materials could be shared. gutenberg EWTN library and
> archive.org
> have great public domain and creative commons books. most are in
> text
> and not in daisy with navigation. oh by the way archive.org has
> language
> learning books and lots of stexts that could be converted to
> daisy with
> ms-word or openoffice. so that's what I'd like, I'd like to see
> more
> public-domain and creative-commons daisy format materials. oh,
> also what
> about more materials in math-ml or math and science materials in
> LeTex?
> Someday I'd like to see a LeTex to daisy audio and letex to daisy
> text
> converter.
>
> Josh
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