Month: 3 Tevet 5786 (December 2025)

Excellent!

Oh it's no problem at all.

No I'm trying to get it to come up. Going to log back into the server on the web, which I need to do anyway, and fill it out.

OK voted. Thanks for the link.

Yeah same. Glad you're getting Bookshare though, I use it all the time and I'm definitely grateful it's no longar scan and correct all the books using a Reading Edge.

It's an interesting poll.

Yes this was definitely a thing, and, if the OCR was too garbled the first time, you had to scan the page again. Worked best if you could cannibalize the book, and text using fancy fonts was the no-go zone.

Bruce and friends probably have some true war stories. I was at the tale end of that era.

@NicksWorld I didn't own one, but there was one in the assistive tech room in my college's library, and I spent hours and hours there scanning books.

@NicksWorld Seconding Bruce on awesome not being the first word choice, but it got me my start on fixing computer and assistive tech and accessibility things, because I needed the stuff to work and a lot of the time I was there after hours. So off to the Net it was to find stuff to read to learn about stuff.

@NicksWorld And yes it was definitely slow.

This. All of it.

@raf @littlemiao Or, (and I promise I'm not making this up in the slightest): "How do you have sex if you're blind" and other such fun questions we sometimes get from random strangers. So what you do in these kinds of situations is find ways to screw with them. 👁️