[Faith-Talk] accessible Christian books and study materials

[Tina Sohl]

I love    my eReader and am looking forward to bluetoothing it to my phone
when android 15 comes to my Galaxy  or whatever probably Galaxy  I may have
by then   but I'm always downloading to it from bookshare.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 5:41 PM Ericka via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> 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
> > To: 'Faith-talk, for the discussion of Blindness in faith and religion'
> > <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > 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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