[lbo-talk] more on Robinson

[Carrol Cox]

Thanks for this. Probably in the next few months I will be using
software to have e-mail read to me. To be able to have some blogs read
aloud would be quite a big improvement. At 78, however, the learning
curve is steep in radically changing the way in which one takes text in.
One thing neither magnifiers or sound do, however, is permit quickly
browsing a text to find a particular passage. I can read a text on my
optelec (though not comfortably) once I have it in front of me, but if I
want a particular passage (say in the Cantos or the Grundrisse), there
is no way I can flip tghrough the pages looking for it. And as for using
indexes -- hah!

Incidentally, the existence of google books has crippled google search
for some purposes. I wanted to find a particular passage in Mansfield
Park, and I had a phrase to search which got me Mansfield Park o.k.,
except all the references were to google books or to articles that
included the phrase. I know there is a web site that has _all_ the
Austen novels, and I use to access the passage I wanted in a few
seconds. I gave up on google to find it for me yesterday.

Carrol

"B." wrote:
> 
> Some blogs, like Naked Capitalism, have installed a button at the top of blog posts that, which clicked, reads the blog out loud in a generic Connecticut School of Broadcasting voice.
> 
> For example: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/04/guest-post-how-big-banks-earned-so-much.html
> 
> It's a free service from Odiogo, but the blog owner has to install it: http://www.odiogo.com/index.php
> 
> -B.
> 
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> "There is no way I can read the text in most blogs"
> 
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