Hi, Everyone!
This is a list of places where you can find
books, articles, magazines, and newspapers
that can be read. I have not tried these, but
thought that being as a lot of you have been
asking where to get books that this might be
the answer for you.
Hope you enjoy it all!
Diane & Beautiful CeCe
Life is wonderful with God beside you.
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Subject: Great List Of Speech Friendly Book
Sites
I thought this was worth keeping.
Hope there is something you can use.
FREE AND CHARGING E-BOOKS
Collected by Bill Vastis and Dan Thompson
updated as of July 11, 2008
BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS FOR THE VISUALLY
IMPAIRED
1. Here is a very extensive site of speech
friendly books.
www.speechfriendly.org
2. Overwhelmingly students are requesting an
education plan where they can
study in their own time, at their own pace
and in the comfort of their
home
or
office.
Through the Independent study courses of
ATI, that wish has just become a
reality.
http://www.accesstechnologyinstitute.com/cata
log/courses/index.html
3. Magic Keys is a site for online
children's books.
This site allows you to read books online or
download onto a disc Some
catigories include: young children, older
children and young adults just
mention
a few. You can also get coloring books and
other very young children
books.
Www.magickeys.com
4. Access Place.com is another site where
the developers have paid special
attention to blind and other special needs
users. Each link is easily
accessible
and the books are all in text format. You
can read the material on line or
download the text onto a disc.
http://www.accessplace.com
5. Free Reformed Books: Large Selection
- A large selection of free
Reformed/Puritan/Presbyterian/Calvinist/Coven
anter
books, articles, tracts and newsletters by
Calvin, Knox, Rutherford (other
Westminster
Divines) and many others.
Www.swrb.com
6. You must have an account to use this
site. The cost is $75.00 for the
first year and $50.00 each one after. You
must have a doctor's or other
qualified
person's letter on file with Bookshare
varifying your are visually
impaired.
Bookshare
is a free e-book site consisting of
Thousands of scanned books for blind
people living in the United States.
http://www.bookshare.org
7. Books24X is only available on line. It
offers thousands of technology
related electronic books available in an
accessible, HTML format for
online
reading
only. The company is considerate of it's
blind users by insuring the
accessibility of its web site.
http://www.books24x7.com
8. digital library is a website that
facilitates access to books that are
freely readable over the Internet. It also
aims to encourage the
development
of such online books, for the benefit and
edification of all.
Major parts of the site include:
. An index of thousands of online books
freely readable on the Internet
. Pointers to significant directories and
archives of online texts
. Special exhibits of particularly
interesting classes of online books
. Information on how readers can help
support the growth of online books
http:digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
9. Gutenberg the world's largest collection
of books:
http://www.gutenberg.org/
10. Bibliomania World's largest collection
of bibilgraphies
http://www.bibliomania.com/
11. Read Print your free online library. Our
website offers thousands of
free books for students, teachers, and the
classic enthusiast. To
find the book you desire to read, start by
looking through the
author index.
If you need help with something, feel free
to
drop us a line.
http://www.readprint.com/
12. Online Free free Books for Everyone
The Online Books Page: Book Listings
BOOK LISTINGS
Our local index includes more than 30,000
English works in various formats
that meet
these criteria.
All should be free for personal,
noncommercial use. You can:
Search our Listings by Author and Title
. Browse Our New Listings
. Browse by Author
. Browse by Title
. Browse by Subject
. Browse serial archives
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.ht
ml
13.Classic Reader allows you to Read Classic
Books, Plays, and Short
Stories
Online
http://www.classicreader.com/
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14. Braille Books.com is where you can buy
about anything with braille on
it, can be used by a blind or low vision
person or locate books for
reading.
www.braillebooks.com
15. You can buy audio books and build up
credits for free books at
audible.com
Www.audible.com
http://www.afb.org:16.
www.rednritten.com
Audio Books for the Blind
Great Entertainment and Professionally
Performed
17. w3schools.com is a site for free html
and more tutorials.
w3schools.com
18. Blind Bookworm: Accessible Etexts and
Ebooks
www.panix.com/~kestrell/sources.html
This is a link site with an extensive list
of reviewed links. It is a good
resource for both students and teachers.
There is information about
E-texts
as
well as a number of other resources. Here
are two samples from the site
Finding Ebooks On the Internet
this book is, in my opinion, a book every
blind reader should own. It also
provides an excellent start
for any teacher, parent or service provider
for the blind who wishes to
learn more about accessible etexts and
EBooks. Written by Anna Dresner, a
blind
editor for the National Braille Press, the
book covers a full range of
topics, from how to locate and access free
etexts to purchasing and using
commercial
EBooks, to learning more about the
accessible Daisy format used by the
RFBD
and others.
(To find out more about this book you can go
to the above site and click
the
link or go directly to National Braille
Press at:
www.nbp.org)
19. Disability Resources.org:
www.disabilityresources.org/ALTERNATIVE-FORMA
TS.html
This is a link site with links to a number
of different resources. The
following links have all been taken from
this link site. In addition the
links have
been explored and provided the direct URL.
Unless otherwise noted, access
to
these sites is free and available to all on
line.
20. Electronic Text (E-text) Collections on
the Internet = The following
are
noncommercial (free) collections of books in
electronic format on the
Internet.
Users should note that the formats vary
(e.g. ASCII, html, pdf, etc.);
some
may be more accessible with adaptive
software and hardware than others.
A. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts = A
"collection of digital documents
collected in the subject areas of English
literature, American literature,
and
Western
URL:
http://infomotions.com/alex/
For: High school, college and university
students
B. Internet Public Library Online Texts
Collection = Search the
collection's
13,000 titles or browse by author, by title,
or by Dewey Decimal
Classification.
URL
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/
For: students 13 and under on their kids
pages, for high school, college
and
university students on the rest of the site.
C. National Library of Canada - Electronic
Collection = "The NLC
electronic
collection incorporates formally published
Canadian online books and
journals.
These publications are being acquired,
catalogued, and permanently stored
at
the NLC. Public access is provided on the
Internet through the World Wide
Web."
URL
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca
For: High school college and university
students.
D. University of Waterloo Library -
Electronic Text Center = "A collection
of electronic resources of value to those
pursuing scholarly research in
the
humanities,"
particularly primary texts in the
disciplines of Classics, English,
French,
German, and Philosophy. Some of the
materials are available offline or via
other sites.
URL
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca
For: College and University students.
21. Other Guides to Electronic Text (E-text)
Collections on the Internet =
Can't find what you want in the collections
above? These are online guides
and
indexes
to electronic resources on the Internet will
lead you to many other
resources.
A. Infomine = An extensive guide to
scholarly and academic resources on
the
Internet from the University of
California-Riverside. Topics covered the
sciences,
government information, social sciences,
humanities, and instructional
materials.
URL
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
For: University students.
B. The On-Line Books Page = Hosted by the
University of Pennsylvania, John
Mark Ockerbloom's directory includes an
index to over 11,000 on-line books
and
pointers
to significant directories and archives of
on-line texts.
URL
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
A Celebration of Women Writers
This is a sister site and can be linked to
from the above site. It=s focus
is on women writers.
URL
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
For: High school, College and University
students.
22. Library Catalogs = The following are
online catalogs to offline
collections of braille, audio, large print
and electronic text materials.
A. Canadian National Institute for the Blind
(CNIB) - VISUCAT = Search
CNIB's collection of materials in braille,
print braille, audio,
electronic
text,
and
descriptive video.
URL
http://www.cnib.ca
Accessibility: Individuals who are
registered clients of the CNIB have
access to the library services. The IRC,
Information Resource Center is
another
service
offered by the CNIB that students and
teacher should explore. The service
can help individuals research and find
information on different topics.
More
information can be found at the web site or
by contacting the CNIB.
B. Louis Database of Accessible Materials
for People who are Blind or
Visually Impaired = Maintained by the
American Printing House for the
Blind,
"Louis
contains
information about more than 145,000 titles
of accessible materials,
including braille, large print, sound
recordings, and computer files from
over 200
agencies throughout the United States."
URL
http://www.aph.org/louis.htm
Accessibility: Users need to register with
this service. It appears to be
more for school personelle rather than
students and it is not clear if
Canadians
would have access to this database. It also
appears as though there is a
fee
for use associated with using this service.
A tole free number is provided
on the web site for further information from
APH.
C. Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
(RFB&D) - OnLine Catalog = Search
RFB&D's collection of audio and e-text
textbooks and educational
materials.
URL
http://www.rfbd.org
Accessability: accessible to Canadians but
students need a membership and
there is a fee for membership
23. Blind World Maggazine:
Blind World is a free online magazine; an
impartial retrospect of recently
published, blindness-related articles.
Here you will find an eclectic assortment of
interesting, entertaining and
informative articles, on a wide variety of
topics that are relevant to,
and
intrinsically
of interest to the blind and
visually-impaired.
The Blind World=s Editors constantly scan
hundreds of sources from around
the world, selecting only those items they
know to be of interest to
members
of
the blind and
visually impaired communities.
The Blind World Editors have assembled an
impressive variety of blindness
related articles for your reading enjoyment,
from an equally impressive
collection
of electronic and
print sources, including newspapers and
magazines, scientific and medical
journals, specialty newsletters and more.
http://home.earthlink.net/~blindworld/
24. Eyes to Eyes is a Web Site for the Blind
and Visually Impaired. This
page has many articles and interesting tip.
Www.eyes2eyes.com.
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