Free online e-books directory thread

Geevesbond and others,

Generally speaking for those born with total blindness, it's easier to read braille! However, most people in the legally blind sense being roughly 10 million in the U.S and increasing due to the retirement Baby Boomer Generation! So, out of this number4 only 10% are totally blind needing to solely depend on braille as their main way of learning. The issue with technology is that it can spew out Duxsbury software to translate text into contracted and uncontracted braille for textual reading with the use of a braille embosser. The of course thing you need is first and formost is a speech synthesizer to even access this and perhaps Open Book which scans using the OCR technology to change some preformated selected documents with accessibility in mind to digitized formats. Another approach is to put this on Project Gutenburg, Book Share, NLS and others with PDF, Word documents, HTML, and the Daisy Format with the extension of .brf for braille file extensions. So, in short these technologies give many the majority really the digital access points just that only 3% of all americans that learn braille in primrary school upon graduation are functionally literate in the print word.
In short, I use digital because it cuts the time time down exteremely because I wasn't born blind. I became blind at the age of 16 in the U.S.A. The doctors gave me the boot with the prognosis that I have Lebers Optical Heredetary Neuropathy that deterates my retina behind my optical nerve. Affectively decreasing optical nerve transplants or anything as it's also in my blood stream. This is a reason why I will adopt not genetically bring more children that our Earth cannot hold with the Cradling Capacity and sustainability as well with the allocation of scarse resources.
To stay on topic, I think that assistive technologies should be more affordable. Some people say "Supply and Demand", however, how much money is used to generate a speech synthesizer? The payroll of what software engineers, technology assistants, database administrators, webmaster and a few beta testers perhaps? This doesn't add up mentally in my head and one of the reasons why the government in certain cases subsidizes the industry with the Vocational Rehabilitation for vocational goals. Unfortunately some people in the world think it wise or prudent to leave productive citizens out in home collecting social security checks. The issue is this it's cheaper to give us a proper education on material that we can affectively function in society as any other. However, this isn't the case in the U.S.A because they are strict and stringent on requirements with uniformity towards inclusion not exclusion methods, which I find wholely unethical and useless. Look at this certain situation right? The brailling of an entire calculus textbook in under a month with or without knowing when the publisher may or may not have in e-format in an accessible format? Another thing is the book isn't announced until like the week of the first class meeting? The publishers at times flat out refuse the request the DSS (Disabilities Student Services) request for it for their disabled students due to ilrational fear of E-text pirating. At times, there is like three months before we get the books or at all because they might have to scan the entire book, which I must still pay for something that I won't even use. They will tear the binding off and that is cut up into chunks to be processed into e-format. Isn't that insaine?
In my conclusion, I think that if you depend wholely on literature on just e-text you are for a rude awakening as the proper syntax isn't explained as thoroughly at otherwise in braille would be. The leisurely reading is done via audio NLS style and the in between hybrids are the e-text and sensative reading is braille. I think that the publishing industry is inately flawed with dispositions on fear mongering out of ilrational fears of pirating. It happens more and more on media such as music and movies because the monopoly on the industry in the states is monsterous overseas. It has affectively destroyed customs, spread lies and misconceptions to mainly the poor and this has in my estimation created this elimination theory of destroying Hollywood with Bollywood and pirating the materials for their ridiculous prices in your local realtor stores. Another thing is that I just love e-text as it saves the environment and gives international literacy a better chance to adapt to the growing times. The tree slashers adopt their safe guarded myth of superiority because there is no interaction between you and the book you see? A book, television, video game and other non-interactive mediams you can't change are a worthless endeavor unless otherwise stated in that media for which I will negate my former statement. A double negative statement for those in logic with the subject and or predicate (verb) or whatever else that bypasses the subject-verb agreement. Anyways, this is my theory and I agree about copyright on international market. The publishing industry holds the cards in technology, colleges, public and private secondary and elementry schools, libraries and the market as a whole with the revisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Laws of 1888 being constantly changed like in 1975 and other years to make it where realtors can charge as low without regarding the publishers at all. Wal-Mart is an inferior good, so the prices aid customers of the lower economic strata.