[Reader-users] wow!

[Rob Monitor]

HI, Just to tell you guys how cool it is to be able  to read things myself 
hears a little story from years ago. This is back in the 1980's before I had 
any of this neat technology I was living in a apartment after my divorce and 
one day I was getting my mail out  of the  mail box in the apartments entry 
way. Well any way  there was a woman getting her mail at the same time and I 
new her and when I pulled out my mail she said that it looked like I got a 
letter from are land lord. She said she just read hers and the land lord was 
raising there rent.. So I opened my letter from the land lord and asked her 
to read it to me. The land lord had rote in my letter that he new I was 
living on a fixed income and he was not going to raise my rent like he was 
doing to every one else and please don't say any thing to any one about 
it... So now if any thing like that ever happens again now I can read my own 
mail and don't have to listen to all the crap that I got from things like 
that...
    THE HAPPY KNFB READER GUY FROM MINNESOTA  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon!" <ilovebooks at reecespeeces.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:10 AM
Subject: [Reader-users] wow!


> Good day reader list.
> Can y'all just humor me for a second here, because i have to share this, 
> and
> I am sure everyone here will get this better than most.
> I've had my reader for just over a week, and already it has changed my
> world.  Here are just a couple of examples.
> My youngest daughter Eilish is in a self contained learning disabled room
> because of her chromosomal disorder.  Monday I was looking at her folder
> because it is sorted so that the homework she has to do is in one pocket 
> and
> the school/teacher correspondence is in another.
> Somehow the papers had gotten mixed up, (I think she had some fun on the
> bus.)  I had my reader out to check and was looking at a piece of paper to
> see if it was a homework assignment.  I was talking to myself, wondering 
> if
> I should bother taking a picture of this particular paper, while Rachel, 
> my
> 13 year old typically developing kid, (well as typical as a teen can be I
> guess),  sat near me doing her English homework.  "Well," she said, "I'm 
> not
> gonna tell you, but I think you oughta read it."
> So I took a picture.  And waited the obligatory 30 seconds for the reader 
> to
> process the text.
> It was Eilish's monthly progress report, and all I could do while I 
> listened
> to it was smile.
> I read that she was getting 70 to 76% in all her subjects, reading, 
> writing,
> mathematics.  She had, in all these subjects, no missing assignments . Her
> grade for each subject was a C.  Her overall grade for all subjects and
> classroom work was a C.
> When her father got home, I waved the paper in front of him and grinned as
> broadly as I know how to grin.  He didn't even read it to me of course
> because he knew I already had done so.  Stupid I know, but it was so
> exciting to know something about one of my kids as far as print school
> papers before their father did, and I could read it by myself without 
> having
> to stop in the middle and discuss something.
> Also it bares saying here that the reader will read the titles of work
> sheets Eilish does in class.  It won't, of course, read her answers or 
> most
> of the problems, but by taking pictures of her papers, I know that she did
> 2+2 in math on Monday and 2+3 on Tuesday.
> Here is one other thing I'd really like to say, then I'll hush.  You know
> those NLS books?  I had gotten one on Friday that I didn't want to read, 
> but
> because of company, I hadn't put it in the mail.  I saw it yesterday,
> realized I didn't want to read it, flipped the address card over and set 
> it
> out for the fantastic mailman I have.
> But then I began to wonder.  Hadn't I turned it over on Friday? I always 
> did
> immediately if it was a book I didn't want to read.  I got the book,
> re-turned the card over, put it down and wondered if I should wait till
> tomorrow to put it out for the mailman so Rachel or my husband could check
> for me ... ... ... ,
> and then the light went on.
> I got the Reader and looked at the address.  It told me I had the card
> turned so that it went back to the library.  It still amazes me how I can
> use it for even the littlest of things.  Church bulletins and menus are 
> all
> awesome, identifying several bills, (which I did on Saturday with my money
> from the bank), is mind blowing, sorting mail is superb, but checking such 
> a
> simple thing as what position your NLS address card is in is really
> empowering.
> Yes, I love the Reader.
> I owe a huge debt of grattitude to Cindy Handel and Jim Gashel for 
> arranging
> to have me see it.
> Shannon
>
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