[Blindtlk] a great resource for books: the International Electronic Braille Book Library

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi all,

Thought I would pass along a wonderful resource I found to get 
Braille books which are either in the public domain (not 
copyrighted and therefore free to distribute) or which have 
permission from the publisher to be distributed to blind people 
at no cost, and to be distributed by those blind people to any 
other people.  It is called the International Electronic Braille 
Book Library, and is sponsored by the National Federation of the 
Blind (NFB.) Here are step-by-step instructions on how to 
download and read Braille books from the Electronic Braille Book 
Library:

1.  Go to the EBBLIND Web site, which is 
www.braille.org/brailleBooks.
2.  Click on the "indices" link.
3.  Decide whether you want it to index the book collection by 
author or by title, and click on the appropriate link.
4.  Find the book you want in the list and click on that book's 
link.
5.  The book's page will come up.  From this page, you can click 
on either a chapter/section name and read it online, or click the 
"complete book" download link.
5.  The download prompt should come up on your notetaker or 
computer.  Download the ZIP file
wherever you want it.
6.  Extract/unpack/unzip (different devices call it different 
things, but it's the same process) the ZIP file.  It will then 
give you separate BRF files of each chapter of the book.  You can 
read these on a notetaker or refreshable Braille display.

Hope this helps! Happy reading!

Chris

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan