[gui-talk] Talking Book Topics

[Joel Deutsch]

Lloyd,

hi. I'm not complaining about anything like the lack of RSS. I answered my 
own question simply by going to the NLS home page, which as I've tried to 
say I've been familiar with for years and have as one of the items in my 
browser's Favorites list for convenience, and last night I looked for and 
found the link to the Talking Book Topics page. Everything is completely 
resolved. There isn't any problem now. And now that I know Talking Book 
Topics is there for me to look at any time I wish, I suppose I can cancel 
the diskette service through The Braille Institute Library here and save NLS 
a few dollars on my behalf. So it's all good, like/as we say these 
days.Everything's copasetic, as they said just slightly before my time, if 
they were the least bit hip. Or just plain cool, as my generation co-opted 
from that broad but socially marginal in my youth, a word which, unlike my 
generation's other best-known approbative term, groovy, has endured without 
too many ups and down and intermittent assignment to museum status., then 
briefly enjoying rehabilitation, then getting archived again. Or, let's say, 
in early astronaut language, everything is A-OK! So, as Russian cosmonaut 
Yuri Gagarincrowed into the mike in his Soyus capsule, payaichele! Which 
there is no way to get Jaws to say right, because you can't fool it into 
pronouncing the gutteral "ch" sound found in Russian, German, or even the 
pronunciation of an initial "j" in Spanish. But I love and appreciate 
jaws,don't get me wrong. Sometimes I just wish its dictionary manager were a 
little mor phonetically cosmopolitan. No, no whoever is thinking this, I 
don't want to switch synths and/or languages just to get Jaws to say one 
foreign language word correctly. So when it keeps referring to a 
particularly colorful sect of ultra-orthodox Jews as the chasidim, or the 
chasidics, I'll just grin and bear it. All this said in good humor, never 
fear.
shasisidcs chawhasdidim.somewat somehconlofurl particuqarly wheh syllable 
languge swit
owm. Dictiroary Som3m3w niitial pro
One day, I may even hit the California Lottery and buy myself a Victor 
stream and sign up for the NLS digital project, whenever it officially goes 
public as opposed to a kind of semi-secret Beta operation for the early 
adopting cognoscenti.

Thanks again,
Joel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:41 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Talking Book Topics


On the main NLS page,
  www.loc.gov/nls
or
  http://nls.loc.gov
there is a link for "Read Talking Book Topics".  This is the page I sent
you, with current and recent issues.  We don't yet have an RSS feed or other
automatic notification mechanism.

Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:34 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] A new kind of accessibility:
>
> Lloyd,
>
> Thanks for the direct link, but I don't need it right now because I'm up
> to
> date at the moment, having read through the fiction and non fiction files
> on
> my latest diskette from them. What I was hoping for was an idea of just
> what
> link to look for from the NLS home page, although you're very kind to have
> given me that direct link. I would like to know-how I would have found my
> way to that page if I'd just started at the NLS home page. i have it in my
> favorites list and often use it to go to the catalogue and run a search
> for
> some book or other now and then. Thanks a lot.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 8:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] A new kind of accessibility:
>
>
> You can find recent issues of Talking Book Topics in HTML or text format
> at
>   http://www.loc.gov/nls/tbt/index.html
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 11:11 PM
> > To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] A new kind of accessibility:
> >
> > Oh. Well, that would sure be handy. If it had been available earlier,
> I'd
> > have done that for years by now instead of bothering with that diskette.
> > Can
> > you find it just by going to nls.org and find a link on the home page?
> Or
> > what? Thanks.
>
>


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