From: Janet Severt <[email protected]>
To: Dan <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:08:49 -0400
Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Totally FREE Commercial Audio Books and Magazines
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Are these files compatible with an ipod or iphone? That would be great!
Janet
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 1:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Totally FREE Commercial Audio Books and Magazines
Thanks Steve!
Dan
At 01:01 PM 7/17/2010, Steve Oldaker said something that elicited my response:
>The National Library Service (NLS) provides free audio book players
>and audio books and magazines to people who are blind or print
>handicapped (cannot handle a printed book). This includes nearly all
>quadriplegics.
>
>The original audio book players provided only play cassette tapes.
>There is now a new fantastic digital player that plays digital
>cassettes or digital books downloaded to a thumb drive.
>Unfortunately, there are a limited number of the digital cassettes
>available for checkout, but you can download selections from an
>unbelievably huge digital library of commercial books and magazines
>from the National Library Service's BARD site.
>
>To obtain a free digital audio book player (don't even waste your
>time with the older cassette player) you will need to visit your
>local or regional library that supports the NLS Talking Book Program
>and complete an application. I think there is also a form for your
>M.D. verifying your disability. You may have to wait several months
>for a player. Mine took 3-6 months to arrive.
>
>Once you get your player and it is registered in the system, your
>Talking Book Librarian can get you an account on the NLS BARD site
>for downloading books and magazines to play on your digital audio
>book player. The processes fairly simple. You go to the BARD site
>and search for and select the book you want, download it to your
>computer (it will be in a zip file), extract all the files from the
>zip file, copy them to a thumb drive, then insert the thumb drive
>into the digital audio book player and you are ready to start listening.
>
>The controls on the digital audio book player are easy to use.
>Starting and stopping are done with the same large button. You can
>fast forward or rewind in increments of seconds, minutes or
>chapters. You can speed up or slow down the narration without
>changing pitch. There is a sleep button that shuts your player off
>in selected increments of 15 minutes. The battery when charged will
>last up to 29 hours. The sound is crystal clear and there is a broad
>range of volume settings.
>
>I am a huge fan of this player and NLS Talking Book program and I
>think you will be too.
>
>Steve - C4, 22 years
