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A Bookshare Valentine’s Day Love Story

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On May 20, 2006, he emailed her off list asking her to hurry because he wanted to read it. They exchanged more and longer phone calls and emails. He was a scanner who saw happy messages from Lissi, noticed she loved animals, and better yet, she was a fan of The Lord of the Rings, proofreading a book, One Ring to Bind Them All.

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Team-Up for Textbooks: Volunteer to Help Students with Disabilities

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To learn more and get involved, please submit the Team-Up for Textbooks volunteer form or contact our staff via email: volunteer [at] Bookshare.org. Each volunteer effort makes a difference for a student with a disability today while also creating a lasting resource that will support students for years to come! Thank you for your support!

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Fake Facebook Friends and the CIA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

If you want to check, go out of network and email them. With the exception of a few folks who decline to participate on Facebook on principle (and are unlikely to join now), people in my network probably are not newcomers to Facebook. And these new accounts are pretty obviously new: if you think about it.

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The Librarian of Marrakesh

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Over the time I corresponded with Jamila by email, she started becoming better known in Europe. She would bring books especially for children and women, and conduct a couple of days of workshops on wide-ranging topics about enterprise, culture, history, poetry and books.

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Serendipity and Twitter

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Why Twitter worked better for me I'm a huge email user, but email wasn't the solution. I wouldn't want to count on Twitter to replace email or the web: it's just the wrong tool for the jobs those tools do better. It was too slow. I wasn't going to spam every person I know in the UK about my arrival.

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Bookshare User Sends Haiku

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We get a lot of emails from happy users, but never before have we received gratitude in Haiku-form! A guest Beneblog by Lindsie Verma of the Bookshare Team Hot Fall Sun hangs low Cooling breeze ruffles oak tree Beneath, small boy reads. And now, as an old man, that boy is still reading. Don Meyer, Bookshare user.

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Tribute to My Mentor

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When we launched Bookshare, the head of the publishers’ association sent around an email reassuring their members that we were good guys, and to please not sue Bookshare! Bookshare has gone on to become the world’s largest library for people with disabilities, serving more than half a million kids with disabilities in the U.S.

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