[Menvi-discuss] About the Book: First, Learn to Practice

[Kaiti Shelton]

Perhaps I'm making a bigger show of this, but I just think it's really
cool that an author actually took the time to research ways to make
his book accessible to blind musicians!  This guy already has an A+ in
my book!

Any chance it might make it to Bookshare?  One could always convert
the PDF file nto brf using Openbook or some other software, but it
would be nice to have it readily available on Bookshare for download
as well.

I'm glad I saw this; I am just now really hitting an upswing in my
clarinet lessons in college, and with my degree recital coming up in a
year and a half or so, this would be a really good read.

On 9/3/14, Paul and Paula Jordan <paujor at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> I've read through the majority of the book.  It's well written, makes good
> sense and is very accessible.  I'm going to finish the book and then
> contact
> Tom to give him my very positive feedback.  This little book came at a very
> good time in my life since I've just started taking flute lessons again and
> want to be productive in my practicing.  I would highly recommend the book
> for any musician.
> God bless!
> Paula and Babe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
> Chris Smart
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 10:33 AM
> To: ddots-l at freelists.org
> Cc: blind-guitarist at yahoogroups.com; menvi-discuss at menvi.org
> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] About the Book: First, Learn to Practice
>
> Hi folks.
>
> I've been contacted by the author of this excellent book, Tom Heany, asking
> for help dealing with customers who are blind. I gave him suggestions to
> pass along which I also outline below.  Personally, I think his book is
> accessible, since it is available in PDF, Kindle and print which can be
> scanned. But, that's just me, and I realize what is accessible for some is
> not accessible for others.
>
> My advice to him was to suggest that, if he sends customers the PDF file,
> that it is up to them to find software to deal with said pdf file. The PDF
> is accessible, it's not a collection of scanned images.
> Your options on the PC under Windows are 1. the free Acrobat Reader, 2.
> QRead from:
> http://q-continuum.net/qread/
> or just about any other program that opens PDF's, such as Openbook,
> Kurzweil
> 1000, etc.
>
> If you chose to get the Kindle ebook from Amazon, you'll need to find a way
> to access it. There are ways of removing DRM from protected Kindle books
> and
> then converting to a more useful file format which I won't go into on a
> public list. Google is your friend for finding out such things. Please do
> some searching if you go the Kindle route through Amazon:
> http://www.amazon.com/First-Learn-Practice-Tom-Heany-ebook/dp/B0085YBQEC
>
> A third option is to simply buy and scan the print book, or find a friend
> with a scanner and OCR software to scan it.
>
> If you have an iPhone. You can:
> Open the PDF in something like Voice Dream Reader, open the Kindle ebook in
> the Kindle app, or use the phone's camera and an OCR app to scan the print
> copy.
>
> I don't own a Mac, so can't comment on the options there.
>
> Tom is a nice guy and will probably just send you the PDF if you ask.
> Please compensate him for his work.  Tons of interviews and a lifetime's
> experience went into it, and he is self-published. If you can afford $5,
> that's just one less Starbucks coffee.
>
> Chris
>
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Kaiti