<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Wow, that's neat! We are definitely in the midst of a major paradigm shift in how people access information.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="929470813-28102009"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Has anyone seen this reader from Humana...</font></span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if he actually meant "Humanware" and was referring to the ClassMate Reader? (He said he was writing all this from memory.) He wrote that the DAISY file was "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; ">downloaded to a device from Humana, specifically designed for the reading impaired" which certainly fits the ClassMate description.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">- Shelley</span></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>_____________________________</div><div>Shelley Haven ATP, RET</div><div>Assistive Technology Consultant</div><div><a href="mailto:Shelley@TechPotential.net">Shelley@TechPotential.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.TechPotential.net">www.TechPotential.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:10 AM, <a href="mailto:B.G.Whitehouse@lboro.ac.uk">B.G.Whitehouse@lboro.ac.uk</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="929470813-28102009"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Has anyone seen this reader from Humana, and does anyone know which libraries will have been doing this scanning? I certainly haven't heard of my local library doing it!</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="929470813-28102009"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Guy</font></span></div><br><div class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"><hr tabindex="-1"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">athen-bounces@athenpro.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Ron Stewart<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>28 October 2009 11:23<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Access Technology Higher Education Network;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:e-grads@ahead-lists.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">e-grads@ahead-lists.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Etext@ahead-lists.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Etext@ahead-lists.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Athen] Very cool eBook development<br></font><br></div><div></div><div class="Section1"><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">This article made my day just with the promise this holds for accessible books:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://followthereader.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-day-it-all-changed/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://followthereader.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-day-it-all-changed/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; 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