Archive for February, 2009
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Science Fiction Writer Steve Carper to be guest of Accessible World on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9PM EST. Topic is Meet a Man Who Lives in the Future but Moonlights in the Real World. His fictional work, Tyrannosaur Faire, is available from Bookshare. To join online, you need a computer, Internet connection, a sound card, speakers and a […]
Bookshare Mystery Book Club
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Join the Mystery Book Club in the Friends of Bookshare online Community chat Room. Anyone can join. You don’t have to be a Bookshare member to join this discussion. The book, The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters will be discussed on Sunday, March 22, 2009. Talking Books Plus Library members can put in a request for the cassette […]
Kindle 2 Controls
Friday, February 20th, 2009Kindle 2 “cannot be used independently by a blind reader because the controls to download a book and begin reading it aloud are visual and therefore inaccessible to the blind.” This quote is embedded in the Kindle 2 controversy about copyright infringement. See the press release from National Federation of the Blind responding to the Authors […]
Mystery Authors
Thursday, February 19th, 2009The Talking Books webpage recently posted Books and Authors To Read: Mystery Writers. This webpage lists 71 mystery authors who have over 1,500 titles in the Talking Books Plus catalog. The words in this posting, Books and Authors To Read: Mystery Writers and Talking Books Plus catalog, have links to other webpages.
Listen to Blog articles
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Odiogo which converts blogs into podcasts has been added to the Talking Books Blog. Click the Listen Now button located on the top left of each article in the blog to activate the text content voice. The Listen Now button will open a player which will read in a near-human quality voice the currently displayed article. While it’s quick to […]
Mystery Net Discussions
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009According to MysteryNet.com, Mystery Net Discussions offers hundreds of discussions about everything mystery. The website has a link to Mystery Greats such as Edgar Allan Poe and Mystery Books and Authors. You are encouraged to join a discussion topic or create one yourself. Mystery Greats discusses long-time great mystery charactors and authors, famous cases, and personal lives. You can add your own thoughts […]
Telephone Book Clubs
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009In the UK, there are telephone book clubs that bring people together from across the country. Small groups of 8 people come together on the telephone to chat about reading and books in general. It is invaluable for contact with other people who participants would otherwise might never interact with. It is a social source for those who live […]
Wireless Reading Device
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Amazon will soon make available the latest generation of Kindle, a wireless reading device. What makes Kindle 2 of interest to persons with visual and reading disabilities is the Read-to-Me feature. With the new Text-to-Speech feature, Kindle claims to be able to read every book, blog, magazine, newspaper, and personal documents out loud. Other features include male and female voices which can be sped […]
President Lincoln Books
Monday, February 16th, 2009It’s President’s Day. Looking for a book about President Lincoln? Order the following titles now and they are likely to be sent next day. Lincoln on Democracy RC32490 Lincoln’s Men RC49400 Lincoln’s War RC58574 Lincoln: a Life of Purpose and Power RC065350 Two Roads to Sumter RC27729 We are Lincoln Men RC57829 Books available in lesser quantity are – […]
RFB&D Free AudioAccess Memberships
Friday, February 6th, 2009Beginning on January 26, 2009 through January 25, 2010, any student with a qualified learning or print disability in the U. S. can sign up for 12 months of free access to RFB&D’s CV Starr Learning Through Listening Library of more than 46,000 textbooks and literature titles, via Internet download. The offer, in celebration of […]
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