Millions of books get digitized for the disabled - USATODAY.com

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"For those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty turning book pages, reading the latest best seller just got easier. Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, has launched a worldwide campaign to double the number of books available for print-disabled people. The Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004 and now has more than 1 million available in DAISY format, or Digital Accessible Information System, a means of creating "talking" books that can be downloaded to a handheld device. Unlike books on tape, the digital format makes it easier for print-disabled people to navigate books because they can speed up, slow down and skip around from chapter to chapter...."

Link:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-07-14-InternetArchive14_st_N.htm

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.formats oa.books oa.audio oa.digitization oa.internet_archive

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 17:29

Date published:

07/14/2010, 23:32