Re: [gutvol-d] Re: jeroen's even-handed analysis
Steve Thomas writes:
As usual, people have missed the point of the original post (Anne's) which was that we need to remember the *user* -- that guy in Africa with only 2 hours of electricity each day.
I'm not spending as much time as I do with PG for him. I seriously doubt that he's interested in Ossian in Germany or Selections from Early Middle English. My target user is a scholar, whether a kid in high school, or a college student or professor or other person who may not have or may not be interested in waiting on interlibrary loan. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
At 09:04 AM 10/20/2004 -0800, you wrote:
I'm not spending as much time as I do with PG for him. I seriously doubt that he's interested in Ossian in Germany or Selections from Early Middle English. My target user is a scholar, whether a kid in high school, or a college student or professor or other person who may not have or may not be interested in waiting on interlibrary loan.
I would like to briefly comment on this. As I've said here before, I am blind. Yes, it is possible to get books in Braille or on cassette. Until recently, electronic books were very hard to come by and PG was really the only major producer of them. When I was in high school, often teachers wouldn't bother to get books in Braille in time. I would often find out literally the day before that I needed to produce a book out of thin air. PG saved my butt many times. I was able to keep up because David Price had posted the works of Dickens and others had posted the works of Twain. I would have never made it through English otherwise. For that I will always be greatful!
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