At 09:00 a -0400 05/03/2007, Gary (Lists) didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>"Chuck Pelto" wrote:
>
>>  The idea of a SOUND FILE on such a disc had not crossed my mind, but
>>  you DO have a fascinating idea there. THANKS!!!!!
>
>Yes, the unsighted are often an afterthought in the dissemination of public
>information.
>
>>  Printing books thick enough to contain the information would be cost
>>  prohibitive. Putting the information on a DVD that people could page
>>  through on a DVD player attached to their television, should they
>>  lack a computer, seems like a reasonable alternative....provide we've
>>  got electricity. However, I suspect we'd have such for a while. Long
>>  enough for people to read the information and act on it.
>
>On the one hand, you sketch a scenario where electricity service
>continuation is unknown ("I suspect we'd have such for a while. Long enough
>for...").  In such a circumstance, it seems that paging through 40+ pages is
>counter-productive.  I have used DVD page-by-page to review movie scripts
>and such and it is very slow, on commercial DVD's.
>
>In the "pande[mic][monium]" scenario you roughly outline, /sound/ is far
>more useful than clicking a remote to scroll pages in an online book.  (Have
>you seen the scaling issues present in these DVD 'page' examples?  In order
>to view the text, the zoom factor prevents the entire page.  Not only do we
>have to 'turn' pages, we also have to 'scroll' the page around to get it
>all.)

Plus people can *act* while listening to audio, thus saving vital time.

>Either a too-rough sketch is provided here (which is fine and appropriate)
>or the model is sufficiently flawed that it warrants further (technical)
>consideration.

Yeah, there was this invention a while back... think it was called "radio". :-D


-boo