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Lanolin - The links that you provided in Post # 22 are OK.

As long as viewers know and understand that this is for a worthy cause sponsored by a reputable organization, everything is OK as you have it posted.

Good luck with that and hope it is very successful.



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Oh good. I hope people enjoy reading books as much as I do. It's one of the pleasures of life. But it's also good to read with other people who can't read and to share.

Note I am not doing a marathon! My sister does those.
 
Lanolin said:
Reading is a skill a lot of us take for granted.

I mean anyone on this forum presumably knows how to read...but what are the real-life consequences for people who DON'T read?

And more so, people who don't take time to READ and THINK about what they read?

I once applied for work as a librarian in a prison. It is well known that a lot of prisoners have ended up there precisely because they either didn't know how to read, or never read, and therefore remained ignorant of many things a person who CAN read takes for granted.

Associated with reading is also WRITING. Imagine if you couldn't write a sentence. How do you cope with life and remember to do all the things that you need to remember? Writing is as much for our own memory as its to make a record for someone else.

In church, would you not be able to progress as much in your spiritual life if all you ever did was hear a sermon once a week and never actually picked up the Bible to read it through? How can you live on just a preacher's scriptural soundbites?

When we hear the news on radio or tv, do we process it the same way that we do if we read a newspaper that can go in depth into current affairs?

What role do books play in reading, and would you realistically be able to get by without any books?
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I'd like to say through writing and reading our imagination gets laid out for all to enjoy.
 
I managed to find an audio bible new testament on cassette tape for a housebound reader. I think CDs can be problematic because you can't just stop them and find your place easily. They also tend to skip.

What format are best for reading do you find? I prefer print books. Hardback A format, because B format can be too small. Paperbacks are ok only if they aren't squished up into miniature versions. I like my pages to be quality paper and not pulp! Pulp newsprint yellows, but then some papers can be TOO white and glary. Self published books can be a bit it and miss. The font has to be readable. I'm a bit fussy.
I only read e-books if I can't find the hardcopy version.

I hate books that have side bars in them that keep interrupting the flow of the book and repeat what has already been written. These are too hard for me to read. A lot of Bibles are published like this, with far too many footnotes and interruptions and comments. I can add my own, I don't need anyone else's like they are reading along with me! I feel it intrudes on the text.
 
Lanolin said:
Reading is a skill a lot of us take for granted.

I mean anyone on this forum presumably knows how to read...but what are the real-life consequences for people who DON'T read?

And more so, people who don't take time to READ and THINK about what they read?

I once applied for work as a librarian in a prison. It is well known that a lot of prisoners have ended up there precisely because they either didn't know how to read, or never read, and therefore remained ignorant of many things a person who CAN read takes for granted.

Associated with reading is also WRITING. Imagine if you couldn't write a sentence. How do you cope with life and remember to do all the things that you need to remember? Writing is as much for our own memory as its to make a record for someone else.

In church, would you not be able to progress as much in your spiritual life if all you ever did was hear a sermon once a week and never actually picked up the Bible to read it through? How can you live on just a preacher's scriptural soundbites?

When we hear the news on radio or tv, do we process it the same way that we do if we read a newspaper that can go in depth into current affairs?

What role do books play in reading, and would you realistically be able to get by without any books?
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I recommend another book that I found indispensable to learning effective reading. It actually changed my intellectual and academic lives.
How to Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler (former editor of Encyclopedia Britannica)
 
Lanolin said:
Its great that books have page numbers so you can keep track of where you are up to, and look things up though I will always use a bookmark for longer books.
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Hey Lanolin;

I'm still a fan of hard or soft back books. You mentioned bookmarks. I use stickies as bookmarks and would date, initial or mark the stickie. I have not been able to transition to electronic books, yet.
 

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I have not been able to transition to electronic books, yet.
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That's completely understandable. Electronic books are... weird. They don't have page numbers. Instead, they have sections. 🤔

When I was studying for my graduate degree, we had electronic textbooks. I spent two years reading miniaturized textbooks in PDF format on my Kindle. It was horrible! That said, I do enjoy the quick-n-dirty electronic dime store books. For example, if I am traveling I'll buy a couple fiction books for my Kindle to take with me.
 
LearningToLetGo said:
That's completely understandable. Electronic books are... weird. They don't have page numbers. Instead, they have sections. 🤔
When I was studying for my graduate degree, we had electronic textbooks. I spent two years reading miniaturized textbooks in PDF format on my Kindle. It was horrible! That said, I do enjoy the quick-n-dirty electronic dime store books. For example, if I am traveling I'll buy a couple fiction books for my Kindle to take with me.
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Hello LearningToLetGo;

When I purchased my books each semester I would find deals on a second hand book. It may have been beat up and wrinkled but it was cheap and it did the job to help me complete my study.

On a productive note I think electronic textbooks can be kept in a book folder minimizing physical inventory.
 
Lanolin said:
Its great that books have page numbers so you can keep track of where you are up to, and look things up though I will always use a bookmark for longer books.
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you are dedicated to your cause/ reading . 👌 honestly i have known men who could barely read.. but give them the Bible and they had no problem
 
You just have to find the book you like.
A lot of people have problems reading when the book is boring. The Bible is not boring (well, only in some parts)
 
Lanolin said:
I'm up to W...not long to go...!

Can anyone recommend any books featuring blind people?
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I’m not sure if you want a book beginning with the letter W
But I can think of 3 books that feature blind people.
Treasure island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The day of the triffids by John Wyndham
And of course, The Bible by God😁
 
Treasure Island? I don't remember the blind person? Or Day of the triffids.
I know Paul was blinded but temporarily, and also the blind man got healed.

I was thinking more books about Stevie Wonder, Helen Keller and Louis Braille.

I need an author who's last name starts with Z...
 
Lanolin said:
I'm up to W...not long to go...!

Can anyone recommend any books featuring blind people?
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Here are a couple autobiographys.
Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903), publicized her education and life with her teacher, Ann Sullivan. It was adapted as a play by William Gibson, and this was also adapted as a film under the same title, The Miracle Worker. I believe The Miracle Worker is also available as a book.

If looking something for something more contemporary then take a look at:
Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness by Sally Hobart Alexander, in it she tells the story of adjusting to her blindness as a third grade teacher and coming to grips with her emotions of fear and despair, and eventually, her acceptance.
 
I'm reading Haben the deaf blind woman who conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

Can I ask why Harvard is considered the top university in the US. In NZ we don't really rank our universities, since there are only 7 of them. If you want to study law, you just go where there's a law faculty (Auckland has one) but that's not to say Auckland has the best university...they all tend to be the same, just offering different degrees. Law isn't seen as a prestigious profession here.
 
Laura Ingall Wilder's sister Mary in Little House on the Prairie books I remember became blind.
I did see the Miracle Worker movie.

Also I think there was a movie starring Audrey Hepburn where she played a blind person. I can't recall the name.
 
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