Showing posts with label Recorded Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recorded Books. Show all posts

January 28, 2013

Resource: Woodworking for the Blind Free Membership



Photo: Curls of wood shavings, a woodworking tool, and piece of wood [via]

Woodworking for the Blind, Inc. now provides free digital MP3 compact disk recordings of current woodworking publications exclusively for the use of blind and visually impaired woodworkers.  Voice recordings of Fine Woodworking magazine, Woodwork magazine, Woodsmith magazine, Woodworking magazine, American Woodworker magazine and Woodcraft magazine are recorded as CDs in MP3 format shortly after the current issues become available. All recordings include the text of woodworking articles on techniques and design, how-to-build-it articles, tips, tool reviews, shop methods, finishing advice, woodworker profiles and other general features. Recordings include descriptions of the many photos and illustrations that accompany the magazine articles. Occasionally, recordings of woodworking books also are issued.

Recordings can be sent only to members. Membership is free and open to all print-disabled persons who are blind, visually impaired or physically handicapped to read normal printed material as a result of such disability.

For further information or for a Membership Application send an e-mail to: 
woodworkingfortheblind@comcast.net

CLICK HERE to visit the Woodworking for the Blind Website

May 31, 2011

FREE TALKING-BOOK LIBRARY SERVICE FOR VETERANS

NLS has a new 'Talking Book' format with new machines which play
book 'cartridges' which hold the entire book digitally
Stay up to date and connected to the world. Enjoy the latest bestsellers, history books, westerns, and mysteries, even if you are unable to use regular print materials. The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress, administers a free nationwide program that loans recorded books and magazines, as well as the equipment needed to read them, to U.S. residents whose low vision, blindness, or physical disability makes reading regular print difficult.

NLS provides service through a network of cooperating libraries in each state. To find contact information for our cooperating libraries, please visit www.loc.gov/nls and select your state. Or call Alice O'Reilly at (202) 707-0538 with any questions about the NLS free reading program for blinded veterans and active-duty service members.

Contributed by Alice O’Reilly
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

CLICK HERE for a link to the NLS website

CLICK HERE for a link to APPLICATION for NLS Services

CLICK HERE to learn more about the new NLS DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER and CARTRIDGES