"My sister's in an independent living facility in the Bay Area and has been in her apartment for the past 3 weeks as the facility is locked down both externally and internally. Not being able to read (she's legally blind) nor able to get audio books because the California library is closed means that there's little to do but watch TV which is quite depressing."
Rich, if your sister is able to operate a computer or smartphone enough to navigate the Stitcher Podcast app, I'm sure she'd find some interesting / entertaining content. I also did a quick Google and came across this article, https://brailleworks.com/9-apps-accessibility-technology/ This in particular caught my attention: BARD <https://bard.loc.gov/login//NLS> allows users to download books, journals, publications, magazines, and music scores in audio and braille from the Library of Congress. BARD does a great job of getting books on the app within the first or second year of their release date. With Bluetooth, users can connect refreshable braille displays and play audio materials. This app is available FREE for both Apple and Android devices if you have an account with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped(NLS). I hope that's helpful. On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:57 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > +1 for k3b > > > If you need audio CD (as classic CD format) you do not need to rip and > > encode anything. > > Except that k3b wants .wav files to write to an optical disk. At least, > that's what I read here: > <https://userbase.kde.org/K3b/Burn_an_Audio_Cd_with_K3b>. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
