[Faith-Talk] accessible Christian books and study materials

[Ericka]

And one of the things that’s great is that if you have the NLSE reader, you can hook that up to your phone tablet or whatever and read Braille that way. I have one and I’m not real text savvy and Assistance, I am able to do this! It’s fabulous! I don’t have the greatest burial skills either let me point out. I’m very very slow.


Ericka Nelson
KD9VBX

> On Oct 24, 2024, at 8:37 AM, Charlene Ota via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Ashley,  Bookshare will be a great source for you.  You can download
> books and read them several ways.  I don't know what assistive tech you
> have, but there's a  Bookshare app for the phone, you can read them on
> devices like the BrailleSense.  I suppose you can read them on your PC, too,
> just don't like to do that personally so have never done that.  There are
> tons of Christian books on Bookshare.  If you are a Hadley student, you can
> get a free subscription, also, state of the NLS state libraries provide free
> subscriptions as well, and, of course, you can purchase your own
> subscription, too, they'll just ask you proof of your disability and your
> regional library will provide that to Bookshare for you.
> 
> God bless,
> Charlene
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faith-Talk <faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Ashley
> Bramlett via Faith-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2024 12:51 AM
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> Cc: bookwormahb at earthlink.net
> Subject: [Faith-Talk] accessible Christian books and study materials
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wish there were more Christian materials out there.
> 
> I use the NLS service a lot and also what is now Learning Ally. The human
> read professional books from NLS have been a blessing filling much of my
> reading needs in many genres except for religious studies.
> 
> 
> 
> I prefer to read by braille or human read audio books.
> 
> While I can access electronic books on my pc, its harder for me to process
> and understand the synthesized speech of it although I do use a screen
> reader. I do much better with audio books by humans.
> 
> 
> 
> I know Lutheran Braille Workers has two versions of the bible in hard copy
> braille as well as some study materials and devotionals.
> 
> 
> 
> Are there any other large sources of materials? I'm Methodist but any source
> for the Protestant Christian faith would work.
> 
> 
> 
> There have been some bible studies at church that I wanted to go to but did
> not have the book.
> 
> Accessible materials are hard to find.
> 
> 
> 
> Maybe once I get bookshare started, someone can give me pointers on
> downloading the books and how to read them online.
> 
> I have done research to find what I need searching mainstream sources such
> as several public library catalogs as well as checking if they are in the
> library's audio book app called Libby which was Overdrive.
> 
> I also searched Amazon and bookstore sites to see if an audio format was
> available since sighted people like listening more and more now a days.
> 
> With the availability of audio for the general public, this helps us access
> more and more books.
> 
> 
> 
> Still several books are not available despite checking around.
> 
> Fortunately, I found an audio copy of some of them at the public library. I
> also found one on Amazon which I bought. It was in old fashioned cd format!
> So it was nice and easy to use. No need to download and unzip files or
> navigate a complex website!
> 
> 
> 
> I just finished a bible study with the book Context by Josh Scott. It was a
> thoughtful book about putting verses in their context.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> 
> 
> Ashley
> 
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