[Dtb-talk] Research on the sighted E-books

[Valerie Lewis]

Hello, 

I wonder if you could share any information that you receive. I think it can be very helpful to many people. 

Valerie


	"Just Because We Cannot Enter, Does Not Mean We Don't Wish To Come In" 


Valerie Lewis, Director
Long Island Talking Book Library
Administrator of Outreach Services
Suffolk Cooperative Library System
P.O. Box 9000
Bellport, NY 11713-9000
(631) 286-1600, x1365
(631) 286-1647 (fax)
vlewis at suffolk.lib.ny.us




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Subject: [Dtb-talk] Research on the sighted E-books

Hi Listers,     I'm doing  some preliminary research on the accessibility of online E-books. There has been a lot of discussion
about the E-book readers but I have not heard anything about the E-books now available to sighted and the blind online through
various print libraries. 

Many university libraries are purchasing these books and putting them on their library pages so that more than one student can read
them at a time. These books only permit limited downloading of pages and  the process for downloading  is at best tedious. 


These E-book companies also offer  speech options although the reading voice and quality is  far below what we're used to in the
blindness community via JAWS and Kurzweil. 
 
If you're familiar with some literature on the topic, I would  be thankful for the references. If you know someone in the blindness
research community who would have some answers to this question, could you please forward this message to them, or  send me their
email address? 

If you're aware of some articles on the topic, I'll welcome those references.
 
Best regards,
 
Sushil Oswal
University of Washington
 
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