For The Blind
Blind For Love
(Audio CD) Eclecto Groove Records
Release date: 2009-07-21
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My mother is blind and the authors she likes are not always the most popular. Getting audio books for her can cost a fortune.
Maybe you could subscribe to an online program. Often they will have MP3 audio books and all you have to do is pay a small fee for joining the site. Also, some libraries have all of their audio books online. Check your local library for information on how to get them! A nice gift idea might be for you and some friends to record the books to audiotape on your own. You could either read the whole thing yourself, or have a different person for each character in the book.
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Where can I get the audio book "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Attwood for free? I am desperately looking for this book, as it is very thick. I will be really thankful if someone does find me the book.
yes i tried the library and they have it on order which will take months!!
The library!!! Try there first. If they dont have it... then I am unsure where you can get it for free... but you can try Barns and Noble online where they have a huge collection of used book on tape and you can get it at a huge discount. Good luck hun.
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Just wondering if there are speaking books on the DS yet? If so where can I get them from? Thanks!!!
not yet i dont think but you can probably suggest it to nintendo and theyll think about it they genuinely look like an idea friendly kinda developer.
I love to read & would like to make money recording books for others to enjoy, such as the blind.
Yes, people (mostly celebrities with good reading voices) get paid for doing audiobooks such as you buy at Barnes & Noble, etc. There are many volunteer organizations to which you can donate your skills to provide audiobooks; here are a few:
http://www.rfbd.org/
http://www.loc.gov/nls/what.html
http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rbbook. html
I honestly think that if you aren't blind, you should definitely not be listening to books, but reading them.
Reading is just good for the brain.
Your opinions?
I do not really think it is lazy. Some people enjoy hearing stories, but they honestly just don't like reading. Reading is not for everyone. Dyslexic people have trouble reading, so listening would be easier for them. Many people begin having trouble with their eyes as they get older, even if they are not technically "blind." Then there are the people who prefer audio books in the car instead of the radio. So, there are several scenarios for people who may like the audio books. I have never tried it myself, as I love just regular, good old-fashioned reading!
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But while techies may be eagerly awaiting the iPad's April 3 arrival, the book publishing world may be much less excited, since Apple has announced that the computers will be able to read aloud “the contents of any page.”
That means that with its VoiceOver technology, the iPad can read – albeit in one of Apple’s computerized voices – all e-books, according to new details released about the device Friday. That is bound to upset many who worry it could eat into sales of audio books.
When Amazon tried to do the same with its Kindle 2 e-book reader, the Author’s Guild, a writers' advocacy group, questioned whether that amounted to copyright violation .
The Kindle’s text-to-speech function “presents a significant challenge to the publishing industry. Audiobooks surpassed $1 billion in sales in 2007; e-book sales are just a small fraction of that,” the guild said in a memo to members . “Until this issue is worked out, Amazon may be undermining your audio market as it exploits your e-books."
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It’s hard enough to lug around multiple heavy books, but doing so with expensive, extra-bulky braille books is downright impossible. So as convenient as E-readers are to those with sight, they would be far more so to the blind. This Braille E-Book concept , which dynamically changes the surface pattern with an electromagnetic signal, could revolutionize books for the blind.
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49ers' Young to appear at benefit for blind, dyslexicYoung and others will transform printed textbooks into easy-to-navigate audio books. For more information, visit www.rfbd.org.