winning the battle
I’ve finally figured out how to speed up the reformatting of my text books into something I can actually use. It was very simple once I employed that strange concept of thinking about it properly. It’s still a faff in as much as when you convert from PDF to text it appers to use some sort of character recognition software rather than just zapping the actual words into a document. So you get some bizarre things like the occasional m where there should ahve been an r n and words get merged together sometimes etc but nothing a quick inspection with a spell checker couldn’t cure most of the time, although I’ve left a few unaltered as I wasn’t sure what the word was (will need to sit with the text book at some point… nothing’s ever easy is it!)
Then I thought it would be nice to convert the text to audio for when I’m being really lazy or tired or soggy brained. And then I remembered how much I hate the voice on my PC’s text to speech software!!!! Am now wondering if I can coax the "save as Daisy file" command to work so I can get a different bit of kit to do the talking for me but I’m not terribly hopeful as so far it doesn’t seem to want to play nicely.
Anyway, this morning Aprilia was planting trees with Brownies which she enjoyed and which gave her a good dose of fresh air which she’s been needing. This afternoon Duke took her to see Grandma whilst I did a bit of studying. This evening she had the last chapter of "Over Sea Under Stone" which she has really enjoyed once it got going, she found it a bit hard going at first but once Authorian legend started getting mentioned she got more interested and now I suspect she is hooked!
