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JUNE 19, 2009

We have shared with people that it's ok for children of disabled parents to download books for their parents, just as it's ok for parents to download books for children with disabilities.

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APRIL 10, 2013

million downloads of accessible books through its online library, to over 200,000 people with disabilities such as blindness and severe dyslexia. We already collect a great deal of information like which books are downloaded most, but our delivery model has been similar to that of print textbooks: “Here it is; hope it’s useful!”

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JUNE 19, 2013

I have asked the Secretariat to arrange a time for delegates to come and see a demonstration of the current state of technology for a library for the blind: how the users download the books, and how they talk. We don’t want procedures that make providing a book in a developing country to be more expensive than in our home country!

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APRIL 16, 2011

Members are allowed to download 100 books a month," Joi Sorensen explained, "but Mel had to call for a dispensation several times because she went over the limit." Her love of reading led to a position on the board of directors of Bookshare, an organization making accessible books and periodicals for readers with vision disabilities.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

With our Read2Go app, Bookshare members can now search, download and read Bookshare books and periodicals on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices. Our members are now downloading accessible books at a rate of more than one million books per year! Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile! with the books they need for educational success.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

For Bookshare members, that can be as simple as downloading a new book from Bookshare , or sharing one you already have. This Sunday while you're finishing off the Halloween candy, think about doing something for National Family Literacy Day. Sunday, really, is just another reminder that every day can be literacy day.

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AUGUST 7, 2013

This is really important for Bookshare, which has implemented the ability to both partner with schools and organizations to download books for specific individuals (our organizational account) and for individuals with disabilities to download books themselves (our individual account, “having your own library card”).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2007

You have to pull down periodicals, I couldn't figure out how to automatically have them downloaded. It goes pretty fast on the New York Times, but I wonder about being on a plane wishing it had downloaded something already when the wireless needs to be off. On the obvious complaints: $399 is expensive.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

They download regularly from Bookshare’s exploding collection to their various braille and listening devices. By then they were collaborating on projects to add more books appealing to young boys, holiday books, books about Ireland, Scotland and Wales, mysteries, and science fiction.

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JULY 10, 2009

It still takes downloading the book to a PC and transferring it to the cell phone, but I'm looking forward to getting rid of that extra step! We also announced a couple of assistive technology partnerships. The first release was about support for mobile phone use with software developer Code Factory of Spain.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Bookshare has over 175,000 total titles and well over 1 million book downloads each year, mostly by our student members of all ages. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students. Time flies when you’re having fun…and apparently so do books.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I'd already downloaded it from Bookshare and read it, and my husband knew that because I'd mentioned the title to him, and told him that I have to buy him a copy so he can read it too because I know he'll enjoy it. My husband asked his friend for an example, and his friend gave him the name of a newish and off-the-beaten path book.

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DECEMBER 30, 2007

now qualify for Bookshare.org, this means that these books can be quickly downloaded into Braille displays or printed out with Braille embossers. Now, we have all of these recommended children's books for Braille readers on Bookshare.org in excellent quality. Because all blind students in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We recently obtained the ability to directly download books from the national accessible textbook repository for those states who appoint us to do that for the disabled students of their state. We're also on a roll on many other fronts. Our staff are all over the country and the world spreading the word.

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OCTOBER 12, 2008

From the story: He is urging young entrepreneurs and engineers to stop making some of the sillier software that lets Facebook users throw virtual sheep at their friends or download virtual beer on iPhones, and instead start making a real difference in the world. He says it's not just the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

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JULY 9, 2018

He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download. Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.”

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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JUNE 24, 2008

Ray Kurzweil is famous for having a relatively extreme view of what this will mean to humanity: humans downloading their consciousnesses into machines and machine-based intelligence becoming transcendently powerful in the relatively near future (our lifetimes).

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MAY 15, 2012

The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done. Any ebook in the DAISY 3 format can be submitted for image descriptions and read by DAISY compatible software that supports image description playback.

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JUNE 22, 2013

Bookshare digital files contain the name of the person or organization that downloaded the digital file, but Bookshare permits Braille production facilities to strip this TPM information out when delivering hardcopy Braille books.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

is now available for download) allows environmentalists to figure out which environmental strategies actually work. That’s why we, in conjunction with the Conservation Measures Partnership, have developed Miradi , our groundbreaking software application for running biodiversity and conservation projects. Miradi (Miradi 3.0

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JUNE 13, 2007

For more information about Martus, and to download the latest version, visit the Martus website. It includes a feature to notify head quarters accounts when there are new field bulletins to retrieve (useful when projects are spread across a variety of field sites), and speed enhancements for accounts with large numbers of bulletins.

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JULY 16, 2005

The same day it is available to people without disabilities, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is already available for download! Harry Potter mania has hit Bookshare.org! Thanks to our volunteers and staff for pulling this off!

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JULY 26, 2004

Since the NFB convention in Atlanta, I've been periodically downloading the national magazines that have been made available. This morning I downloaded The New York Times. Also thank you for the ability to download books on so many subjects. I just received a user email that made me excited.

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JULY 20, 2005

Hundreds of Bookshare.org members have downloaded the book already, while I'm waiting for my wife to finish the print copy my daughter read first! Nice article in the San Francisco Chronicle on our Harry Potter scanning project, entitled Books ripped up, fed to online library for the blind.

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JULY 21, 2007

Within the hour, it should be available for download. We've been getting regular updates from our volunteer scanning crew, who have chopped, scanned, OCR'd, paginated and are now doing the final prep work to release the newest Harry Potter book to the Bookshare.org community.

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MAY 2, 2012

By September, we’ll also have added more than 100k educational titles and achieved more than 3 million total downloads, delivering books for less than one tenth of the cost of traditional approaches.

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MARCH 22, 2006

We have 125 daily papers available for download on Bookshare.org, thanks to NFB's work on securing agreements with newspaper publishers. We have just announced the formal launch of our Newsline/Bookshare.org partnership with the National Federation of the Blind.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

When I returned home on Friday night, my new books were sitting there in my Bookshare folder waiting for me to download and proofread. Of all I saw and participated in during my whirlwind week at Bookshare, this process for getting the bestsellers into the collection affected me most directly.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2006

We did a little research into what our subscribers download most, and the results were thought-provoking. Bookshare.org Top Ten Downloads for our First 4 years: Rank, Title, Author 1. What our subscribers read reflects the diverse interests of our online community. From Bookshare.org.

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JULY 6, 2005

The addition of newspapers has been a giant hit with our users: I heard a lot about downloading the morning paper and listening to it on a portable device on the commute to work or school! They also had many ideas for improving the service as well, which was our main motivation for having such a gathering.

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JUNE 8, 2010

The draft can be downloaded from WIPO. This draft can be downloaded from the DAISY Consortium. I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term. The Proposals A. The Treaty for the Visually Impaired (TVI). Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2007

These titles are available now for download by subscribers in both DAISY and BRF formats." What makes Bookshare unique is that this library is truly at our fingertips and lets its patrons keep their downloaded books that are in specialized formats. What makes Carrie unique is her dedication.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Bookshare.org allows people with qualifying disabilities to share and access thousands of books in digital formats that can then be downloaded and read using text-to-speech computer software or Braille devises. One of the programs developed by Benetech is a digital library called Bookshare.org.

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MARCH 27, 2006

You can listen to the talk by downloading it here. NIMAS is the new format that all K-12 textbooks in the U.S. will be delivered in starting at the end of 2006. After the talk, I found that Prof. Norm Coombs had recorded the session and provided me with a copy.

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JULY 6, 2004

Once you download a book, you can listen to it using VisuAide's Victor Reader software, or access it in Braille using your Braille display or notetaker. Not only can you access Newsline by telephone as most of you here already do, you can also download the paper in any other way that works for you. But, books are not enough!

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Over 350,000 American patrons now download more than a million accessible books and periodicals each year! As an organization that puts this disability-specific copyright exception into practice, I can say with confidence that the U.S. exception model works well here.

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