[nabs-l] Are there any other sources for books?

Kirt Manwaring kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 05:04:02 UTC 2013


Homberto,
  Maybe your university library or your local public library has an
accessible check-out process?  Barring that, I can't think of
anything, if you're planning to stay on the right side of the law.
  Best,
Kirt

On 1/17/13, Humberto Avila <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow students,
>
>
>
> Besides Bookshare, NLS BARD, RFB&D, Learning Ally, and any cooperating
> Talking and book library, is there any other resource that I can use to
> find
> free e-books I can read with JAWS?
>
> The reason I am asking this questions is because my English instructor has
> assigned reading groups, and each group is to pick out a book to read
> together. However, the book that we've chosen for my group is not to be
> found anywhere in any of those sites I've mentioned above. I looked, and
> pretty much exhausted my search.
>
> The only place I have found my book is in the iTunes store and on
> Audible.com, but it costs about $20. I'm also trying to avoid the hassle of
> buying the print copy of the book just to show my Disability Support office
> my receipt, so they can convert it for me in e-text or Braille or Audio
> format. Plus, all the print book ends up doing anyways, is sitting for
> months collecting particles of dust in a shelf or suitcase.
>
>
>
> So, do you know of any other sites I could browse? Other ideas I could try?
> Please let me know ASAP. Otherwise, I will be an unhappy scholar.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Humberto
>
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