Not your grandpa’s USB plug-in microphone… [Filler]

Doing my volunteer reading at the local PBS radio station, I'm not using off-the-shelf computer components for making mp3s.

I like how the DOF turned out in this image from my phone's camera.

See the broader workstation and note how this puppy is mounted on the wall or window frame: https://365project.org/rhoing/365/2018-04-10

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[GaryW]

Very cool mic! What are you reading?

[Thom Mitchell]

@thewatersphotos Newspapers. Local and regional newspapers. Some are even weeklies. V-e-r-y small-town at times. It's a community service of our PBS radio station, providing a reading and information service for individuals who are blind, visually impaired and print-disabled.

Any person in the station's listening area whose eyesight or physical condition makes it impossible to read a newspaper or book qualifies to receive the broadcast, traveling on a sub-carrier frequency of the station's main signal. The broadcast can only be heard on a special radio receiver that is pre-tuned to the broadcast. » http://www.wsiu.org/siris/

I did this more than a decade ago, too. Then I recorded Randy Pausch's _The Last Lecture_, https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/1415957061
L. Frank Baum's _The Wizard of Oz_, and several of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories from my leather-bound volume. I have done this partially in honor (then) of my great-uncle who suffered from macular degeneration at the end of his life.

[GaryW]

@rhoing Super story, Thom! What a great service. Keep going!

[Jane Anderson]

Very interesting--I appreciate that you included the link to the larger setting.

[Rick Schies]

It is a great shot Thom and that is quite a set-up