Up to the time of losing my sight I had known only vaguely about that blessed instance of the welfare state, the Talking Books for the blind. Now it was imperative to learn what could be done to ...

It will be a talking book that even looks like a book, although most of its users will never see it. Instead of a cassette tape, it will have no moving parts but will read a volume digitally from ...

Every Monday, George Schleicher comes to Waukegan from his home in Deerfield to fulfill the very important role of quality control inspector for the Lakeland Pioneers, a service organization of ret… ...

Edward Leadley often takes three months to read a book. It`s not that he is a slow reader; it`s because he reads each word carefully into a tape recorder. In the last seven years, Leadley, 67, has … ...

Nevada’s Talking Book Service (NTBS) provides free audiobooks and braille materials to residents with disabilities affecting ...

Talking Books is a program of the NLS, which records and distributes their collection of about 200,000 recorded books—also for free—to people with certified visual impairment.

But if you were blind or visually impaired, newspapers were not immediately accessible-- until Radio Talking Book. Here to talk about the birth of this essential service is Joseph Papke.

Radio Talking Book Service provides programming for listeners who are blind, low vision or print impaired all across Nebraska. Fifty years after its start, they are finding new ways to ...

For any aspiring electricians, seamstresses, or any person with a desire to enrich the lives of the visually impaired, contact Terri M. of the Colorado Talking Book Library at 303-727-9277 or ...